De Man spent the rest of the war in seclusion reading American and French literature and philosophy and organizing a translation into Dutch of "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville, which he published in 1945. He would be interrogated by prosecutor Roger Vinçotte, but not charged after the war. Henri de Man was tried and convicted "in absentia" for treason; he died in Switzerland in 1953, after crashing his car into an oncoming train, an accident that was almost certainly a suicide.