‘The point was to dehumanise’: London Holocaust archive examines world’s first ‘viral’ antisemitism scandal
Dreyfus affair has echoes of how anti-Jewish hatred manifests itself today, say curators at Weiner Library It was the world’s first experience of antisemitism “gone viral”, said Barbara Warnock, a co-director of the oldest Holocaust archive, the Wiener Holocaust Library in London.
France’s prohibitive censorship laws had been lifted, and then along came the Dreyfus affair: a public shouting match that followed the wrongful conviction for treason of Alfred Dreyfus, a 36-year-old French army captain.
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