Further criticism of Clark 's reliability arose in March 2007 with the discovery that Clark 's account , given in his memoirs and elsewhere , of walking the streets of Bonn the day after Kristallnacht was untrue . By examining Clark 's letters and diary , the writer Mark McKenna established that it was Clark 's future wife Dymphna , and not Clark , who was present on that day , although Clark did arrive in Bonn a fortnight later . Brian Matthews notes , however , that when Clark was reunited with Dymphna " as his diary records , on 25 November 1938 " evidence of Kristallnacht " was still shockingly visible , and it was explicit and confronting enough to scar his sensibilities and live in his memory ... With his capacity for imaginative reconstruction and his acute sensitivity to emotional ambience and atmosphere , what he saw of its immediate aftermath was for him quite as shattering as the original event had been for Dymphna and others who had experienced it on the night of 10 November 1938 "
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