... explains that although the Nazi press described Kristallnacht as 'a spontaneous wave of anger' the truth was that SS men and Stormtroopers carried out the violence. He uses his own experience of the events to comment and also information he discovered from interviews which he carried out. He felt that the most hideous part of Kristallnacht was the arrest and transportation to concentration camps of male German Jews. This confirms that the Nazis were definitely to blame for the violence and he even states that the local crowds were 'obviously horrified by the Nazi's acts' which proves the German people were not involved and were nothing but dismayed by the goings on. Source E also claims that the Nazis were to blame for Kristallnacht and that most German people had nothing to do with the riots and burnings. The opening sentence immediately indicates that lies had been told already ...

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