Why the Dreyfus Affair matters:
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Beteilige Person: Begley, Louis 1933- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press 2009
Ausgabe:1. ed.
Schriftenreihe:Why X matters
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Abstract:In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attaché in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sentence was military degradation and life imprisonment on Devil's Island, a hellhole off the coast of French Guiana. Five years later, the case was overturned, and eventually Dreyfus was completely exonerated. Meanwhile, the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart, pitting Dreyfusards - committed to restoring freedom and honor to an innocent man convicted of a crime committed by another - against nationalists, anti-Semites, and militarists who preferred having an innocent man rot to exposing the crimes committed by ministers of war and the army's top brass in order to secure Dreyfus's conviction.--[source unknown]
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:XVI, 249 S.
ISBN:9780300125320
9780300168143