QB What impression of Kristallnacht does source C give?? Ross Butcher
Source C gives the impression that Kristallnacht was a “hideous,” unnecessary operation planned by the Nazis. He starts off by saying, “the shattering of shop windows” this is what the word Kristallnacht means. This source is very very reliable as it was written by an American who was in Germany at the time and saw everything that happened where he was staying. He wrote the account days after Kristallnacht and has had interviews with both sides of the case. David Buffman says this “Was described by the ‘Nazi’ press as a spontaneous wave of anger as, a result of the cowardly Jewish murder of Von Roth a German officer in Paris.” He is saying that this is what the Nazis want everyone to here as it came from their press and this could be a form of propaganda by giving them information without another option. He later on said “However, when viewing the ruins and the violence, all the local crowds were obviously horrified by the Nazis’ acts,” this was what he saw himself and shows us that this couldn’t be spontaneous if all of the Germans were horrified and didn’t like a single thing they were doing.
