sentences:  The Dreyfus affair created difficulties and blocked the way for improved relations between France and Italy after the customs war as Italy was Europe's most Dreyfusard nation.The shock of the Dreyfus Affair also affected the Zionist movement "which found fertile ground for its emergence".The Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl appeared profoundly moved by the Dreyfus affair, which followed his debut as a correspondent for the "Neue Freie Presse" of Vienna and was present at the degradation of Dreyfus in 1895.