The Alfred Dreyfus Affair

The case of Alfred Dreyfus Alfred Dreyfus was a political and legal scandal from 1894 to 1906. This event separates French political situation, it is regarded as an extreme situation of abortion alone, and it is recognized worldwide as well as contemporary. In this case Alfred Dreyfuss was convicted of treason. He is an artillery officer, and his descendants are Alsace 's Jews. Alfred is supposed to spy the German government after writing a letter to the garbage can near the army.

During the 1894 Alfred Dreyfuss incident, French anti-Semitism sentiment spread very much. This had a big impact on Hertz. Prior to that, I believed that the best solution to European anti-Semitism is assimilation of Jews and Christians. After Drefs' military court, Hertz was convinced that the only way to solve anti-Semitism was to establish a Jewish state. In 1896, Theodor Hertzl announced a short novel "Jewish State" (Der Judenstaat) which promoted the establishment of the Jewish state. Hertz was not the first person to suggest a Jewish state, but he was the first person to take action immediately. Among the wealthiest leaders like the German emperor Wilhelm II and Turkish Sultan Abdulhamid II, they expressed sympathy for the homeland of the Jews, but they intend to pay for such projects There was not.

The Dreyfuss case, the political crisis began in 1894, and continued throughout France during the Third Republic, until 1906. The focus of the controversy was in the wickedness or innocence of Alfred Dreyfus, an army minister who was convicted of treason in December 1894 to be sold to the Germans as secret of the military. First, the mass supported this sin; it wanted to believe in the sins of the Jewish Dreyfus. The majority of the initial publicity surrounding the case came from anti-Semitic groups that symbolize so-called Jewish inef fi nity (in particular La Libre Parole's newspaper edited by Édouard Drumont).