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Pierre Laval

Pierre Laval was a French politician. He was four times President of the council of ministers of the Third Republic, twice consecutively. Following France's Armistice with Germany in 1940, he served twice in the Vichy Regime as head of government, signing orders permitting the deportation of foreign Jews from French soil to the death camps...

Timeline of Events

1935

1.7.1935

Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco–Italian Agreement.

1942

4.18.1942

Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.

1945

7.31.1945

Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria.

10.15.1945

World War II: The former premier of Vichy France Pierre Laval is shot by a firing squad for treason.