How reliable is source E to a historian writing about the events on Kristallnacht, use source E and F and your own knowledge to support your answer.Both source E and F are from a newspaper article explaining the events of Kristallnacht.

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How reliable is source E to a historian writing about the events on Kristallnacht, use source E and F and your own knowledge to support your answer.

Both source E and F are from a newspaper article explaining the events of Kristallnacht. Source E is an article from a British newspaper called the News Chronicle it was produced on the 11th November 1938. The title of the article read POGROM RAGES THROUGH GERMANY INCENIDIARY MOBS WRECK SHOPS SYNAGOGUES. Source F was also written on the 11th November 1938 but is an American newspaper that has produced the article called the New York Times. Both sources have similar views on the events on Kristallnacht but are they important to a historian? The attack on Jews started in November 1938. this was a result of a Nazi German embassy staff, Ernst Von Rath, being shot by a Jewish refugee named Hershel Grynspan.

Source E tells us about  Kristallnacht the facts in source E has some accurate details as it was the 15th anniversary of the Munich putsch we also know that during Kristallnacht shop windows were broken and the contents of the shop was stolen also that Jewish synagogues were set on fire. The city of Kurfurstendamm that is written about in source E does exist.

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The language of the article may have been exaggerated to get people to buy the newspaper to do this they made the story shocking and interesting by the use of exaggerated and violet language. Or it could have been written this way just to get the message across of what the event. The words that were used were words such as ; bawling raucous gangs, drunken and aflame. This puts across violent imagery and makes the story interesting. This source is reliable as it matches my own knowledge as on crystal night many people destroyed Jewish shops and synagogues. It ...

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