- Jews with French citizenship had high survival rates during the Occupation, unlike Jews in France who did not have citizenship. The Germans did not tell the Vichy government Jews were being deported to extermination camps, and many people assumed they were being used as forced labor for the war effort.
- His chief of staff Jean Jardin is the father of novelist Pascal Jardin.
- Father in law of René de Chambrun.
- The Spanish dictator General Franco said Laval returned to France in July 1945 out of his own free will. He had an option to flee by ship to South America, but he decided to return to France instead and face the accusations held against him.
- His trial has been criticized as flawed.
- His defenders stated that largely thanks to Laval's efforts Jews in France had high survival rates. It was estimated that by World War II, the Germans had killed 90% of the Jewish population in other occupied countries, but in France only 50% of the pre-war French and foreign Jewish population, with perhaps 90% of the purely French Jewish population still remaining alive.
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