The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus
Paris, october 1894. Alfred Dreyfus, captain in the French Army, is asked to come to the war ministry. The military hierarchy wants to compare his handwriting with the one appearing on a note found in the wastebasket of the German military attaché in Paris and discreetly carried to the French authorities by a zealous cleaning lady. Dreyfus will be arrested for treason, judged by a military court, degraded in public and sent to a stranded island in the Fr...
