Another controversial statement by Nolte in "Der europäische Bürgerkrieg" was his comment that the "Kristallnacht" pogrom was not that bad as pogroms in Imperial Russia killed far more Jews than those killed in "Kristallnacht", and that further more people were in being killed in the Soviet Union during the Great Terror at the same time than were killed in the "Kristallnacht". Likewise, Nolte argued that Nazi anti-Semitic laws had hardly affected Jewish participation in the German economy. In this respect, Nolte favourably cited the remarks by Sir Horace Rumbold, the British Ambassador to Germany 1928-33 who claimed that the “ostentatious kind of lifestyle of Jewish bankers and monied people inevitably aroused envy, as unemployment spread generally” and who spoke of “the sins of the Russian and Galician Jews” who came to Germany after 1918. The British historian Richard J. Evans accused Nolte of engaging in “comparative trivialization” with his statements about "Kristallnacht" and through admitting that Nolte was correct about the higher death toll in Russian pogroms and the Great Terror argued that was irrelevant to the horrors of "Kristallnacht". Evans went on to write that Nolte appeared to be ignorant of the effects of various anti-Semitic laws in 1930s Germany which forbid Jews from engaging in professions like the law, medicine, the civil service while the “Aryanization” campaign saw mass expropriations of Jewish businesses.