Abstract: When liberation came, no one took Giraudoux to be a “friend of Hitler.” He had been Commissaire général à l’Information from 1939 to 1940, which earned him the lasting hatred of the far right. He wrote nothing in favor of collaboration or anti-Semitic laws and lived out the “dark years” as an exile in his own homeland. After the invasion of the Zone Libre, he came into contact with resistance fighters. Ignorance and malevolence alone explain the fact that he is now seen as a Vichy supporter and collaborator.
