Mr. piedmont is a historian who recently discovered two personal accounts of the same event told by two different people. each personal account recalls the day the german army marched into a polish town in 1939. one account is given by a 35-year-old captain in the german army, while the second account is given by a 10-year-old polish boy. the day after marching into the town, the german captain wrote a letter home to his sick mother living in his hometown several hundred miles away. several years later, after escaping from a concentration camp, the polish boy told his account of that day to a us reporter.

while both accounts provide first hand experiences of the event, which of the following best evaluates the accounts for reliability due to their perspectives?

a.

both accounts are reliable due to the close proximity to the event.

b.

the reliability of both accounts must be carefully considered due to the authors' backgrounds, biases, and other factors.

c.

neither account can be viewed as reliable because neither author used a camera to capture the event.

d.

both personal accounts can be viewed as reliable because neither author has been proven untrustworthy.