Pierre Laval31 July 1944
Expelled by the Spanish. flees to Austria & arrested by US troops for treason
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Expelled by the Spanish. flees to Austria & arrested by US troops for treason
Laval leaves Paris with the Germans, he joins the other Vichy exiles in Belfort and later in Sigmaringen, Germany
Flown to Spain a few days before the German surrender, Franco has Laval arrested and turned over to the Americans in Austria who extradite him to the French authorities in July
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