Why didn’t the Germans use the Vichy French armistice army in Operation Barbarossa?

[NormanStewart]

Among the closest we saw the Vichy Air Force in action against the Allies was in the Syrian-Lebanese war theater.

The Syria–Lebanon Campaign (1941)

U.S. Department of State (May 29, 1941) 740.0011 European War 1939/11442: Telegram The Consul General at Beirut to the Secretary of State Beirut, May 28, 1941 — 10 a.m. [Received May 29 — 9:02 p.m.] 171. French hospital ship Canada arrived yesterday and is due to leave in a day or two. Local French sources fear French authorities will attempt to put on board a number of Free France sympathizers who are being rounded up in ever increasing numbers, including officers and non-commissioned …