As Charles du Paty de Clam, Commissioner-General for Jewish Affair, was accused of passivity and disinterest towards the aryanisation process, Joseph Antignac replaced him on 17 May 1944. Joseph Antignac tried to make all documents related to the organization disappear in August 1944 as the Allies were heading to Paris. Following the Liberation of the French capital on 19–25 August 1944, he was arrested on November 20, then interned in Nanterre. Suffering from tuberculosis, he asked for his release in the spring of 1945, which he would only obtain three years later.