Dreyfus affair happened in 1894.
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The Dreyfus Affair sent shock waves throughout France because it showed the extent of Anti-Semitism in France.
Passing military secrets to the Germans.
YES. The Dreyfus Affair demonstrated that a significant part of 1890s French Society still believed that Jews were subversive and inimical to France. However, it also revealed that there was a significant part of Non-Jewish French Society was willing to defend Dreyfus, an innocent French Jew, of the slanderous claims of the military kangaroo court.
The Dreyfus Affair started out as a Dreyfus Case. In 1894, a group of French officers accused Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain on the French general staff, of selling military secrets to Germany. Dreyfus was then tried by court-martial, convicted, stripped of his rank, and deported for life to Devil's Island (an appalling prison in the Atlantic Ocean). When Colonel Georges Picquart, the new head of the Intelligence Division, questioned the verdict in 1896, searches revealed that the trial documents were forgeries. Yet, the War Department denied Dreyfus a new trial, and this "case" became an "affair". This affair polarized France. Republicans, socialists, and liberals backed Dreyfus. These supporters were Dreyfusards and stood for progress and justice against prejudice. Among these Dreyfusards, was the famous writer Emile Zola. Zola blasted the French establishment in a controversial newspaper essay "J'accuse!" that accused the government, the courts, and the military of faking documents, covering up treason, and ignoring issues of justice. The anti-Dreyfusards, on the other hand, included monarchists, militarists, some clergy, and other socialists who thought of the affair as a distraction from more significant economic issues. A Catholic newspaper declared that the question was not whether Dreyfus was guilty or not, but whether Jews and unbelievers were not the "secret masters of France". After six years of such controversy, Dreyfus was freed on an executive order in 1899. In 1906, the supreme court cleared him of all guilt, restoring his position in the army as a major and inducting him into the Legion of Honor. One of the most significant consequences of this affair was the separation of church and state in France. Republicans thought that the church and the army were hostile to the Republic, so laws were passed between 1901 and 1905 that banned religious orders in France that were not authorized by the state, forbade clerics to teach in schools, and dissolved the union of the Catholic Church and the state. The Dreyfus Affair accomplished four things: * Swung public opinion towards the government; * Discredited anti-Semitism in France; * Helped the government replace monarchist military officers with loyal republicans; and * Brought about a law to weaken the clergy.
History's Mysteries - 1998 The Dreyfus Affair was released on: USA: 1998
Anti-Semitism
Empty Nest - 1988 The Dreyfus Affair 4-6 was released on: USA: 26 October 1991
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Yes
The Dreyfus Affair sent shock waves throughout France because it showed the extent of Anti-Semitism in France.
French for "The affair", meaning "the case of" -- as in "L'affaire Dreyfus". A romantic affair in French is called "une aventure".
Passing military secrets to the Germans.
There was a rise in anti-Semitism.
Yes it did. The Dreyfus Affair divided the country.
Martin Phillip Johnson has written: 'The Dreyfus Affair'
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