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I havent read the book of les miserables, but I have seen the musical. If you refer to the police, he was an honourable man. The so called hero was a wretched dog in my opinion, happy to sacrifice the girl who loved him to save his own skin.
Magneto represents all repressed peoples in my view, not just Jews or just Israel. He is indeed an antagonist of the cringing, snivelling Xavier, who chooses to abandon his people to gain some level of favour from the racist humans.
Magneto believes in doing whatever is right, he believes in his right to protect himself and his people by any means necessary. He meets violence with violence when necessary. Xavier believes that the best thing is to grovel before tyranny and even assist in it if it saves your own skin.
If you want to look at the holocaust analogy, Xavier would be one of the Jewish leaders of the ghetto - handing and selling out his people a bit at a time and all the while telling himself that it was the best thing and the way to save at least some people. He will keep believing it till no one is left.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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