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  EPILOGUE

1908 June 4
Zola's ashes are transferred to the Pantheon; attempt on the life of Dreyfus during the ceremony; culprit is acquitted.

1914 January 19
Picquart dies in a riding accident.

July 31
Jean Jaurès assassinated.

August 2
Dreyfus returns to active duty, promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and serves in First World War.

1922
Walter Rathenau, Jewish Foreign Minister of Germany, assassinated by racist extremists.

1931 February
The play L'Affaire Dreyfus by Rehfisch and Herzog staged in Paris; violent demonstrations; injuries and arrests.

1935 July 12
Death of Alfred Dreyfus; buried in the Cemetery of Montparnasse in Paris.

THE AFTERMATH

1935
Nuremberg laws enacted.

1938
'Reichskristallnacht''

1939
Commencement of Second World War.

1940
First Vichy Statut des Juifs.

1942
Wannsee conference.
Deportation of French Jews
to Auschwitz begins.


1943
Granddaughter of Dreyfus deported from Drancy to Auschwitz where she perishes.

1945
War ends. Death of Lucie Dreyfus. Figure for genocide of Jews becomes known and totals 6 million.

1946
Polish pogroms; Jews murdered. Nuremberg trials.

1948
Establishment of the State of Israel.

1962-65
Vatican II rejects anti-Jewish teachings.

1970
First signs of antisemitism cloaked as anti-Zionism.

1980
Bombing of Paris Synagogue.

1988
Erection of statue to Dreyfus in the Jardin de Tuileries; desecration of the grave of Dreyfus in the cemetery of Montparnasse.

1990
Marked increase of antisemitic acts throughout Europe. Desecration of Jewish cemetery in Carpentras.

1994
Dreyfus Centenary commemorations.
Dismissal of French Army historian Colonel Paul Gaujac for questioning innocence of Dreyfus.
Bombing of Jewish Centre in Buenos Aires, killing 100 people. Increase of antisemitic acts in Italy.
Increase of antisemitic acts in Russia.
Increase of antisemitic acts in the Ukraine.
Increase of antisemitic acts in Lithuania.
Increase of antisemitic acts in Germany.
Arson attack on Lübeck Synagogue.
Desecration of Buchenwald Memorial.
Increase of antisemitic acts in France.
Desecration of cemeteries in Alsace Lorraine.
Desecration of Drancy Memorial.

1995...
Antisemitic acts throughout Europe
Sharp increase in antisemitism in Russia.
Internet becomes the tool of antisemitic,
racist and extremist right-wing groups.