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Pierre Laval (1883-1945), French politician, a member of the Vichy government of German-occupied France during World War II (1939-1945) and a leader in efforts to collaborate with Germany.
After serving as minister of labor in 1932, Laval held the ministry of foreign affairs from 1934 to 1935, and in that capacity he arranged a mutual military assistance pact with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
The treaty aroused a storm of public indignation and was speedily repudiated in both Paris and London; Hoare was forced to resign, and the Laval government fell in January 1936.
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Laval met with Hitler at Montoire on October 22,1940, offered his own collaboration and arranged a meeting two days later at which Petain pledged the collaboration of the French State as well.
Laval was dismissed and arrested on December 13, 1940.
Laval was shot four times while reviewing the Legion des Volontaires Francais at Versailles on August 27, 1941, survived his wounds and was returned to power in Vichy on April 18,1942.
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 Vidkun Quisling and Pierre Laval
Laval a docile Catholic in good order at the Vatican and a thorough defeatist, was, it says, "the most responsible for French politics at this juncture," When the government transferred to Bordeaux he went there and, the Annual says, intrigued with all his energy to get "peace at any price".
Laval was taken into Petain's group and became, when the members of the Senate and Chamber (Congress's) voted themselves out of existence by 569 votes to 80 and made Petain dictator, Vice-Premier.
Extradited to France, Laval was convicted of treason by the High Court of Justice and condemned to death.
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 Laval, Pierre. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
With Sir Samuel Hoare (later Viscount Templewood), he proposed (Dec., 1935) a settlement to halt the Italian conquest of Ethiopia; the plan was seen as appeasement of Benito Mussolini, and his government collapsed.
Laval’s government drafted laborers for German factories, cooperated in the persecution and deportation of Jews to death camps, authorized a French fascist militia, and instituted a rule of terror.
Laval defended himself brilliantly and ascribed patriotic motives to his opportunist policies.
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 Pierre Laval - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pierre Laval (28 June 1883 15 October 1945) was a French politician and four times Prime Minister of France, the final time being under the Vichy government.
Leaked to the media in December, the realpolitik Hoare-Laval Pact was widely denounced as an appeasement to Mussolini and Laval was forced to resign on 22 January 1936.
Laval was enthusiastically pro-Nazi; his demands for a Franco-German military alliance led to him being sacked from the government and arrested in 13 December 1940.
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 Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval was born in Auvergnac, France, on 28th June, 1883.
Laval developed a close relationship with Otto Abetz, the German ambassador in France, and on 22nd October, 1940, he met Adolf Hitler and proposed that the two countries should work closely together.
Laval never suspected the inhuman system and the atrocities to which the people who were arrested and deported to the east were subjected.
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Laval appears to have been born with an intense hatred for the English in Canada, particularly the English in Quebec.
As a young writer, Laval ran away to the United States to serve as a war correspondent for the United States forces in Europe during World War 11, rather than serve in the Canadian Army and serve the cause of the bloody British.
Laval is not directly involved with the terrorists, but they seize upon his rhetoric as license to bomb, murder and kidnap.
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Pierre Laval, prime minister of [[Vichy France]] Pierre Laval (June 28, 1883 – October 15, 1945) was a French politician and thrice Prime Minister of France, the final time being under the Vichy government.
Leaked to the media in December, the realpolitik Hoare-Laval Pact was widely denounced as an appeasement to Benito Mussolini and Laval was forced to resign on January 22, 1936.
Laval was largely blamed for the increase in anti-Jewish activities and the decision to send French workers to Germany through la releve and the later the Service du Travail Obligatoire.
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 Exordio - Segunda Guerra Mundial - Pierre Laval
Pierre Laval nació en Chateldon, Auvergne, Francia el 28 de Junio de 1883, hijo de un carnicero de la comunidad.
Laval, un hombre de pocos modales, que siempre usaba una corbata blanca, mal lavada, ganó un escaño en la Cámara de Diputados representando al Partido Socialista.
A partir de ese momento, Laval se esforzó en aumentar la colaboración con los alemanes, inició la persecución de los judíos y ofreció premios a quienes colaborasen con los alemanes.
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 Laval, Pierre - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bibliography: See biography by Hubert Cole (1963); D. Thompson, Two Frenchmen: Pierre Laval and Charles de Gaulle (1951); G. Warner, Pierre Laval and the Eclipse of France (1968).
Pierre Laval: the man in the white tie: Richard Wilkinson exposes prejudice and myth in assessing the career of a key figure in modern French history.(Profiles in Power)
Partnership Between the Laval Police Department and Correctional Service of Canada Against the Entry of Narcotics Into Leclerc Institution.
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 AllRefer.com - Pierre Laval (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Elected (1914) to the chamber of deputies as a Socialist, he held various cabinet posts and in 1926 became a senator as an Independent, moving away from his leftist affiliations.
In the Vichy government under Marshal PEtain he became vice premier and foreign minister, but in Dec., 1940, he was dismissed and replaced by Admiral Darlan, apparently on suspicion that he was planning to overthrow PEtain.
PEtain reinstated Laval in Apr., 1942, and in November gave him dictatorial powers.
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 Pierre Laval
A member of the Socialist Party from 1903, Laval became a lawyer in Paris in 1909 and promptly made a name for himself by his defense of trade unionists and leftists.
Elected deputy for Aubervilliers in 1914, he urged a negotiated peace to end World War I. Defeated in the 1919 election, he left the Socialist Party in 1920, became mayor of Aubervilliers (1923-44), and was reelected deputy in 1924, leaving the Chamber to become a senator in 1927.
Laval's control of France deteriorated with the growth of the resistance movement and the attacks of extremist collaborators such as Marcel Deat, with whom the Germans forced him to work.
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 wais:france: vichy and marshal petain and pierre laval March 2005
After the war Laval political views changed dramatically and he re-entered the Chamber of Deputies as a right-wing conservative.
Laval returned to pursue his business career and built up a commercial empire based on newspapers, printing, and radio.
Laval recovered and by the spring of 1942 he was ready to return to political life.
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 Biographie: Pierre Laval, 1883-1945 (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Juni: Pierre Laval wird in Châteldon (Frankreich) als Sohn eines Café-Besitzers geboren.
Laval stimmt der von Mussolini beabsichtigten Besetzung von Abessinien (heute: Äthiopien) zu.
Laval setzt sich für einen Ausgleich mit dem Deutschen Reich um jeden Preis ein, da er Frankreichs Position im Zweiten Weltkrieg als zu schwach für einen militärischen Erfolg einschätzt.
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While reviewing troops from the LVF with Vichy figure Pierre Laval in Versailles on August 27, 1941, Déat was wounded in an assassination attempt - carried out by French Resistance member Paul Collette.
After recovering, he became a supporter of Laval, and in 1944 was made Minister of Labor and National Solidarity in Laval's cabinet (Laval became Prime Minister of Vichy France in 1942.
He gradually moved to the right and served as Minister of Labour in the Vichy regime under Pierre Laval from 1942 to 1943.
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 Pierre Laval - Wikipédia (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pierre Laval, né le 28 juin 1883 à Châteldon (Puy-de-Dôme) et mort le 15 octobre 1945, à Fresnes, est un homme politique français.
Laval développa des rapports très étroits avec Otto Abetz, ambassadeur allemand en France, et le 22 octobre 1940, il rencontra Adolf Hitler et proposa que les deux pays s'allient très étroitement ensemble.
du 27 janvier 1931 au 13 juin 1931 ;: voir gouvernement Pierre Laval (1) succédant à Théodore Steeg (gouvernement Steeg),
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 laval - OneLook Dictionary Search
Laval : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
LAVAL : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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 Pierre Laval — Infoplease.com
Two Frenchmen: Pierre Laval and Charles de Gaulle
Pierre Laval: the man in the white tie: Richard Wilkinson exposes prejudice and myth in assessing the career of a key figure in modern......
Actes du colloque en hommage a Pierre Savard tenu a l'Universite d'Ottawa les 4,......
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 Pierre Laval
The Avoidable War, Volume 2: Pierre Laval And The Politics Of Reality, 1935-1936
French politician Pierre Laval served as Premier of France in 1931-1932 and 1935-1936.
As Premier under the regime of Marshal Petain, Laval acquiesced to the deportation of French workers to Germany and permitted the persecution of the Jews in Vichy France.
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 Laval, Pierre - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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