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in the office of a German military attachment
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that somebody in the French Army
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was passing secret information to the Germans
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about French military operations on the edge--
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on the new frontier, that is the Vosges, and Alsace and Lorraine.
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And circumstantial evidence pointed to a captain, Dreyfus.
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And they confront him with the evidence.
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It looks like his handwriting.
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And when they do this--this is a very military gesture--
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they gave him, present him with a pistol,
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saying, "You too can blow out your brains."
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And, in doing so,