dreyfus affair

     

The Dreyfus Affair was a political scanal which divided France from the 1890s to the early 1900s. It involved the conviction for treason in 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Jewish background who was in advanced training with the Army's General Staff.

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  • This political scandal divided France following the 1894 espionage conviction of a Jewish army officer
  • Major Esterhazy was probably the real spy for the Germans in this French "affair" that began in 1894
  • It was while covering this case in Paris that Theodor Herzl figured that Jews needed their own homeland

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