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In 1894 this French Jewish army officer was convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment, but ultimately acquitted when the evidence against him was shown to have been falsified by anti-Semites. Who was he?

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The incident that became known as the Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal that tore late 19th-century France apart. In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, one of the few Jewish officers on the French Army's general staff, was wrongly accused of passing military secrets to Germany. The primary evidence was a handwritten memo that military officials, fueled by anti-Semitic prejudice, claimed was written by