sentences:  The army declared Esterhazy unfit for service.To avoid personal risk he went into exile in England, where he lived comfortably and ended his days in the 1920s.Esterhazy benefited from special treatment by the upper echelons of the army, which was inexplicable except for the General Staff's desire to stifle any inclination to challenge the verdict of the court martial that had convicted Dreyfus in 1894.