across France. framed and to admit his innocence. Fifty years after the case Dreyfus' Paris demonstration following 1980 anti-semitic bombings ONE HUNDRED years ago a large crowd gathered in Paris to witness the public humiliation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army who had been convicted of spying for the Germans. The crowd spat and shouted "kill the Jews" as Dreyfus was stripped of his insignia and his sword ritually broken. Once deported to Devil's Island his case unleashed a violent outpouring of anti-Semitism It took 11 years for the French government to admit that he had been Such is the dreadful unity of these two events, which mark the beginning and mid-point of our imperialist century. granddaughter died at Auschwitz.