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He was convicted for selling military secrets to the Germans. It quickly transpired later that someone else had sold the documents, and the 'proof' presented at the trial was of the kind of the handwriting expert stating as testimony that the fact that the defendant's handwriting looked nothing at all like the handwriting found in documents was 'proof' that the defendant had been purposedly covering his tracks.
Even in the face of overwhelming evidence of Dreyfuss' innocence it took more than a decade before he was rehabilitated. He later fought with distinction in WW 1.
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∙ 9y agogiving military secrets to the germans
To be complete it should be said he was later totally exonerated.
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