12/22 – The Dreyfus Affair

Captain Dreyfus is depicted symbolically breaking his sword, and submitting to military justice. (TimesofIsrael.com) On this day in 1894, French army captain Alfred Dreyfus - a Jewish Alsatian - was wrongfully convicted of treason by the government of the French Third Republic. His prosecutor argued that Dreyfus had smuggled military secrets to the German Empire.…