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Attitudes were changing toward different races within Europe. Due to their wealth and prosperity, the Jews were blamed for many issues inside and outside of Europe. The Dreyfus Affair in 1894 divided France into two parts. Captain Alfred Dreyfus had been accused of sending military strategies into France’s enemy, Germany. However the whole scheme had been a plan by the anti-Semites. Later on military officials found evidence that a French Army major named Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy had been the real culprit behind the situation. Dreyfus’s case was re-opened and he received his job back. The Dreyfus Affair separated France becuase the Catholic Church lost influence over the people. Another consequence was the sparking of the zionist movement by Theodore Herzl. McKay, John P. __History of Western society__. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.