The Dreyfus Affair
History Daily
Airship | Noiser | Wondery
4.4 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
December 22, 1894. Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, is convicted of treason for allegedly passing military secrets to the Germans.
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| 0:12.1 | I gave this episode of History Daily a good kick and had started right up, even having sat from when it |
| 0:18.1 | originally aired on December 22nd, 2021. |
| 0:23.0 | It's April, 2021. |
| 0:30.0 | It's April 1895. |
| 0:32.4 | A hot midday sun blazes over the southwestern Atlantic where a ship |
| 0:36.4 | plows through choppy surf. In the distance a featureless horizon is |
| 0:40.9 | broken by the outline of a tropical island, a thicket of palm trees |
| 0:44.9 | silhouetted against the azure sky. This vessel, a convict ship, carries |
| 0:49.8 | condemned criminals from France, But on this particular voyage, |
| 0:53.5 | there's only one prisoner on board, |
| 0:55.7 | a man convicted of selling state secrets |
| 0:57.9 | to an enemy power. |
| 0:59.6 | Below deck, the prisoner sits hunched in his dark cell. |
| 1:02.8 | He's in his mid-30s, with a briskly brown mustache |
| 1:05.9 | and an inscrutable expression. |
| 1:07.9 | Behind wire-frame spectacles, |
| 1:09.8 | his dark intelligent eyes are downcast but defiant. |
| 1:14.4 | Years of distance splash as the anchor is thrown overboard. |
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