At his trial before the High Court of Justice in December 1947, Vallat remained an unrepentant anti-Semite, although he denied direct responsibility for the deportations of the French Jews, claiming that his policies had saved more than half of the Jews from deportation.
At his trial before the High Court of Justice in December 1947, Vallat remained an unrepentant anti-Semite, demanding that one of the judges, Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont, be disqualified because he was Jewish. He denied direct responsibility for the deportations of the French Jews, claiming that his policies had saved more than half of the Jews from deportation.