The Occurence of Kristallnact

The Occurence of Kristallnact

A) Source A is a summery by an historian, Fritz Hesse's. The source

was wrote in 1954, the fact that the night of the long knives took

place on November 7th 1938 does not make this source any more

reliable. In this source Hesse speaks of what we know that really

happened. This is that the attack was carried out by SS and SA troops

out of uniform. Hesse quotes " Hitler squealed with delight and

slapped his leg with enthusiasm" this makes me as the reader think

that Hesse was an eyewitness but there is nothing to support this.

This account was wrote 16 years after the nazi downfall, which meant

that because Hitler wasn't about Hesse had the freedom to express his

views of what actually did happen.

Source B was from a secret report prepared by the Nazi party supreme

court. This account was form an actual report by the Nazi's. It was

meant for only high leading Nazi men, not for the public eye. In the

account it expresses the views from the Nazi opinion to change what

they did to blame it on other going on's. Everything that is mentioned

in the account we know went on at the time of Kristallnact and the

report was wrote immediately after Kristallnact happened

In conclusion I feel that source B is he most reliable. Although they

are both quite reliable and they both relate to each other, source B

has more relevance. The fact that source A was wrote 16 years after

Kristallnact happened and source B was wrote straight after

Kristallnact. Source B suggests that Hitler had nothing to do with the

riots. We can tell this when the report quotes "The Fuhrer, at

Goebbels' suggestion, had decided that such demonstrations were not to

be organized by the party". An the fact that this was a secret report

that only went out to supreme Nazi leaders is a major benefactor to

the source. So I can now say that source B would be the more reliable