Key Dreyfus Affair events remain unresolved and unproven

Evidence

Whether Colonel Henry forged the bordereau on orders from the chief of staff or upon his own initiative, is still unknown. Similarly, the attempted assassination of Labori, counsel for Dreyfus at the Rennes tribunal, has never been properly cleared up. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2104

Categorization

• QUESTION: This document hints that the Dreyfus Affair’s decisive events had murky, unresolved authorship — worth chasing how Arendt uses this ambiguity as a mechanism of mob politics.