Do sources D and E make it more or less likely that the account given in source C is accurate?

Source E is an anonymous letter sent to the British consul shortly after Kristallnacht and is quite blunt about who was to blame; in contrast to Source D it suggests that Kristallnacht was staged by the police and the SA “the police supplied SA men with axes” which agrees with source C “they had been provided with hammers, axes...” making it more likely source C is accurate. Also source E is defensive of the German people “most German people had nothing to do with these riots” this is similar to source C “all of the local crowds were obviously horrified” portraying in both sources the German public to be innocent to the heinous deeds of Kristallnacht.

Source C informs us that Kristallnacht took place in the city of Leipzig. Source D informs us that there were riots in cologne also a major German city denoting the riots took place in large cities. Source E states that the countryside of Germany was “worse still” suggesting that riots would have been more likely to occur in the rural areas of Germany this disparity makes source C likely to be accurate as source C claims the locals in the city were horrified and so it increases the plausibility of the suggestion in source C that Kristallnacht was planned.

An anti-Semitic and belligerent impression of the non-Jewish German public is transgressed in source D. This is different to the impression source C gives as it portrays the German public to be sympathetic towards the Jews; this is backed up by source E as the writer claims that the German public had “nothing to do with these riots”.

Source D and E appear fairly reliable however, the fact that both sources are anonymously written means one cannot assume that they have not been fabricated by an opposition to the Nazis to tarnish their reputation; although it seems plausible for the sources to be written anonymously as the articles contain views and opinions that the Nazis deemed punishable so the writers would have been too cautious to associate their names with these opinions.  

Overall I think sources D and E make it more likely that source C is accurate. My reasoning for this is source E seems to supplement source C with the aspects such as the SS and SA organising the riots and vandalism as well as the German public not being involved with Kristallnacht. Furthermore, source D describes the countryside to have worse attitudes to the Jews than the cities which makes source C more accurate as source C portrays the Germans living in the city to be sympathetic towards the Jews.