This article attempts to examine how the amnesty laws of French collaborators with Germans had been enacted in 1951 and 1953, and what their contents and characters were. Their enactment was not unexpected in the early 1950s. Rather, the laws were established on the model of the precedents in 1947 - 1949. The process of the enactment was not easy; though 60% of the French replied in the affirmative to the amnesty. the controversy was heated in Parliament. Deputies for the amnesty laws insisted that the purge of collaborators immediately after the Liberation had not been fair and they needed to forgive ‘those who lost the way’, not criminals. They also argued that national reconciliation was an urgent priority and forgetting was necessary then because many years had passed since the Liberation. By contrast, deputies against the laws asserted that it was neither possible to forget nor forgive the crime under the German occupation, and the amnesty laws denied the legitimacy of purging collaborators after the Liberation. The controversy was very hot, but deputies for the laws always won at all the votes; deputies from socialist and communist parties consistently opposed, but most of deputies from the other parties usually voted for the laws. However the amnesty laws never granted the general amnesties contraty to the concern of the deputies against them; the major offenders among collaborators were always excluded from the amnesties. And the main effect of the laws was not to release the prisoners, but to efface their criminal records and recover their rightS.