In 1944, Luchaire called on the Germans to "exterminate" the French Resistance, and his newspapers wrote violent anti-British and anti-American articles after the Normandy landings. He was appointed Minister of Information in the French government-in-exile, after the Germans forcibly removed it from Vichy to the Sigmaringen enclave, 1944–5, where, apparently, he continued to be optimistic. He fled to Italy in 1945, but was later arrested and returned to France. He was tried by a tribunal consisting of broad Left appointees, even communist members of the resistance, and executed.