In 1894, captain of the French army,Alfred Dreyfuswas court-marshaled and convicted forespionage- selling military secrets - to the Germans, who were France's main enemy at the time. The evidence against him was weak, and the outcome of the military trial was rejected by a part of the pu...
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At the end of the 19th century in France, the birthplace of European Jewish emancipation, an espionage scandal erupted involving an assimilated Jewish army captain and questions about his “loyalty” to the state. The anti-Semitism that characterized the arrest, trial, and retrial of Captain Alfre...
This anti-Semitic trial instigated several public opinioncampaigns, ardent controversies, and political tensions. In short, we could say that it wasthe most evident demonstration of anti-Semitism in France. The unfair sentence of CaptainDreyfus was disseminated throughout Sephardic literature in the ...
References in periodicals archive ? 120 years later, the time has come for the army to give Alfred Dreyfus back the honor and years that were taken from him, and I will personally see that it is done. 120 Years after Trial, Alfred Dreyfus May be Promoted to General A Claude Dreyfus B ...
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On February 7th, 1898 Emile Zola, grubbily realistic novelist and trenchant social critic, went on trial in the Paris' Palais de Justice charged with defaming the entire high command of the French army in J'Accuse!, his open letter to the president of the French Republic. Zola's explosive...
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Alfred Dreyfus was a French army officer whose trial for treason began a 12-year controversy, known as the Dreyfus Affair, that deeply marked the political and social history of the French Third Republic.