The Economist (US), May 7th, 1994
Jewish captain Alfred Dreyfus was deported from France in 1894, 100 years before a French court sentenced Paul Touvier to life imprisonment for the execution of seven Jews during World War II. It was also 50 years before the grand-daughter of Dreyfus would die in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
IN 1894 a French military court used trumped-up charges to have a Jewish captain, Alfred Dreyfus, deported for life--as it thought. A century later a court has sentenced a Frenchman, Paul Touvier, to life imprisonment for having seven Jews executed 50 years ago. This layering of dates and events is a...
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