Ebook: The Dreyfus Affair - Tragedy of Errors ?

Boston . D. C. Heath and Co. (Problems in European Civilization ) 1963. 131p.Captain Dreyfus (a Jew ) was sent to Devil`s Island in 1894 for
selling military secrets to the Germans but eventually exonerated
and awarded the Légion d'Honneur in 1906.The Dreyfus accusations upset French political and social life
from top to bottom.There was a polarizaion between those
who placed their faith in a strong army and those whose
main priority was the rule of law and Democracy.
Some believed in the existence of a worldwide conspiracy
to destroy the French Army and thus France also through
the operations of International Jewish finance.
Although the radicals triumphed over the forces of Caesarism
and anti-semitism the war of 1914 was approached in a state
of complete dissolution .There was even less unity in 1939.A selection of sixteen extracts is collected here representing
the conflicting views of leading historians.