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  1. 3 days ago · The Dreyfus affair (French: affaire Dreyfus, pronounced [afɛːʁ dʁɛfys]) was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906.

  2. 5 days ago · In 1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a career army officer of Jewish origin, was charged with selling military secrets to the Germans. He was tried and convicted by a court-martial and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island off the South American coast.

  3. 2 days ago · Plot. In 1941, Austrian SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa interrogates French farmer Perrier LaPadite, suspecting that his family is hiding a Jewish family, the Dreyfuses, under their floorboards. LaPadite confirms this to spare his own family, and Landa has the hidden family shot, but allows Shosanna Dreyfus to escape. [13]

  4. 3 days ago · In 1894, French artillery officer Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused of passing military secrets to Germany.

  5. 4 days ago · In this case, reality is more frightening than fiction because the true story behind The Entity is a much more harrowing ordeal than could ever be contained on celluloid. The story of Doris Bither, the woman whose life inspired the classic horror film, is one of addiction, abuse, and spectral rape.

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Léon_BlumLéon Blum - Wikipedia

    2 days ago · Blum first became personally involved in the Affair when he aided the defense case of Émile Zola in 1898 as a jurist, before which he had not demonstrated interest in public affairs. Campaigning as a Dreyfusard brought him into contact with the socialist leader Jean Jaurès, whom he greatly admired.

  7. 5 days ago · He was a rich Jewish captain serving in the French Military. He was unknowingly accused of spying and selling French military secrets to the Germans by way of a document known as The Bordereau. Based on this suspicion and an unfair trial where false evidence was used to convict him.