Who Carried Out Krystallnaught

Who Carried Out Krystallnaught

Source Based

Sources A and B

Source A is the summary of an historian's account what was originally

written by a journalist who worked for the Nazis. The account is of a

social party for the top Nazi leaders on the 9th November. Source B is

from a secret document by the Nazis Supreme Court after

Krystallnaught. Source A is blaming Krystallnaught on the Nazis, the

original account was written by Frits Hesse who worked for the Nazis

as a journalist, so it may be biased. Source B seems to be sympathetic

to Goebbles, and as it is written by the Nazis I think it may be very

biased and untrustworthy. I think source A is the most useful because

it is against the Nazis, and it was originally written by a Nazi who

would usually put a good name in for the Nazi Government. Source B on

the other hand is written by the Nazi's and is in their favour, as it

was written by the Nazi Supreme Court.

Source C gives the impression that Krystallnaught was planned by the

Nazis with the SS men dressed as civilians carrying out the attacks.

Also we can see that all the local crowds were 'horrified' by the acts

of the Nazis, so the source says it couldn't have been the civilians

who carried out these attacks. The Source also shows the Nazi press,

trying to cover up the attack they may have arranged, by saying it was

a 'spontaneous wave of anger'. Another fact showing that the Nazi's

may have planned Krystallnaught was that many Jews that night were

taken to concentration camps, and there is no way the civilians would

have been able to arrange this, only Nazi soldiers could have sent

these Jews to the concentration camps.

In Source F we have a fat Nazi standing over a dead corpse of a Jew,

the Nazi has watches and loot in his pockets and is holding a bloody

knife in one hand and a club in the other.