The Dreyfus Affair
Criminal Records Podcast · Demetria Spinrad and Isaac Meyer
July 8, 20211h 18mExplicit
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Show Notes
The hunt for a spy within the French military went off the rails when an amateur graphologist fingered the wrong suspect. A closed military trial turned into an national scandal involving forged evidence, multiple moles, and two separate failed assassinations.
Content warnings: Discussions of antisemitism, suicide, pogroms, and the origins of the Zionist movement. The show notes contain several antisemitic caricatures of Dreyfus and his family.