At nine-o'clock on the morning of January 5. 1895, Alfred Dreyfus as accused for being a traitor when his name and handwriting was found on a covering memorandum, that was supposedly sent to the Germans. Being a Jew, he was considered a foreigner and was treated differently.
At the courtyard of Paris's Escole Militaries he was marched out to stand before a general. The general striped from Dreyfus's hat and sleeves the insifnia of rank; then the general rips of the buttons an strips from Dreyfus's trousers ;and took Dreyfu's sword and broke it in half.
During this public humiliation of 20,000 he was then sent to a commom criminal city prison. That day he wrote to his wife, and asked her to do everything in the world to find the guilty one.
Two weeks later, Dreyfus was put on a train for the port of La Rochelle. There a ship awaits for him to take him to Devil's Island off of French Guiana, where is exiled to.
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