why was alfred dreyfus wronged and what were the wrongs?

Answer 1

Someone in the French military high command was spying for the Germans. Colonel Alfred Dreyfus was accused, tried and convicted because fellow officers wanted to protect the real spy, an aristocrat. Also, Dreyfus was Jewish, which made him unpopular with the nobility and the conservatives. He was sent to the Devil`s Island prison, but many French writers and journalists (Émile Zola was the most effective) took up his cause and had him brought back for a new trial. The military court convicted him again, but it had become so obvious that a miscarriage of justice had taken place that the government commuted his sentence and later gave him a full pardon. He went back to his military career and lived the rest of his life quietly. There is a very nice statue of him today in Paris!

Answer 2

Dory is essentially right, and you should award him best answer. Dreyfus was a captain when he was first accused in 1895. He was retried and acquitted in 1906. He was taken back into the army as a major, because that is what he would have been had nothing else happened. He retired from the army about 1908. When France and Germany went to war in 1914, he rejoined the army as a colonel. He finally died in 1935.