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Officially, the Office national des Anciens combattants et victimes de guerre (ONAC) has not always been empowered to direct a commemoration programme. The commemoration of the two world wars and of contemporary conflicts have been the subject of a true public policy only from the beginning of the?1980's with the creation, at the national level in?1982, of the Commission de l'information historique pour la paix and, at the local level from 1983, of the Commissions d?partementales de l'information historique pour la paix (CDIHP). The archives of the ONAC's Bureau in Loiret show the impetus given by?these committees to the actions carried out in the department?: exhibitions, lectures followed by debates, films shows, trips and so on, on the two world wars,?with a special emphasis on the Second World War. Between?1983 and?1996, twenty-three commemorative events were organized by the CDIHP, in?partnership with other local departments and with the associations of war veterans. However, the CDIHP were not, in any way, the starting points of the remembrance programme led by the ONAC. They served only to turn it into a permanent institution and they constitute only one among several remembrance organizations.