Source Investigation: Why did Kristallnacht take place?
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Have a little read: ... Source Investigation: Why did Kristallnacht take place? Noor Nanji South Hampstead High School Candidate No: 8216 Source Investigation: Why did Kristallnacht take place? (a) There is historical evidence to prove that Kristallnacht was a Nazi-organised event, not spontaneous rioting by ordinary Germans against the Jews, as the Nazis presented it. Thus, a historian would be more inclined towards Source A, which presents Kristallnacht as the former, rather than the latter, as represented by Source B. However, there are certain factors, indicating that perhaps Source B may be the more useful. Source A, a summary of an account written in 1954, is a secondary source, which immediately suggests its unimportance for a historian, because as it is not a direct quote from the account itself, the historian's summarisation might have somewhat distorted the truth, thus losing the source's reliability. The date of the account also causes us to doubt its significance; being written almost twenty years after Kristallnacht, Hesse's memory
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