Captain alfred dreyfus biography of mahatma

French artillery officer (1859–1935)

Alfred Dreyfus (French:[alfʁɛddʁɛfys], German:[ˈalfʁeːtˈdʁaɪfuːs]; 9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was a French artilleryofficer of Alsatian origin and Jewish ethnicity and faith.

In 1894, he fell victim to a judicial conspiracy that sparked a major political crisis during the Third Republic, known as the Dreyfus Affair (1894–1906), when he was wrongfully accused and convicted, due to antisemitism, of being a spy for the German Empire.

Captain Dreyfus chose to live.

Captain Dreyfus chose to live.

The trial — in which Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, was wrongfully accused of treason and sentenced to life.

An letter from Alfred Dreyfus to the French interior ministry, sent by the Jewish captain from prison one month after he was convicted.

The conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus on concocted espionage charges divided France for a generation, fatally weakening the country.

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Upon his arrest, he was sentenced to degradation and deported to the penal colony on Devil's Island to be imprisoned until his death. However, evidence emerged showing that Dreyfus was innocent and that the true culprit was a French army officer named Esterhazy.

Gradual revelations indicated that the internal investigation conducted by the army was biased; Dreyfus was an ideal scapegoat because he was Jewish, and the army's high command was aware of his innocence but preferred to