Dear Historians, Im a student from Germany and currently writing an essay about the Korean War from 1950-53. As part of this essay I am asked to analyse a source. I am focusing my essay on the question of responsibility that I can conclude whose responsibility this war has been. Now I wondered if some of you may now a good source I could analyze in order to answer that question myself. Maybe some sort of political speech? I am clueless. Thanks in advance for any kind of help. Bye
Saw your initial question on another Subreddit. Apologies my German isn’t quite up to answering you over there.
The Wilson Center has a large collection of documents in the Korean War for 1945-1953 you can analyze. I wont spoil too much of it for you, but as a navigation guide there is no one document regarding the start of the Korean War because the decision for war was made by five different groups of people betwen 1949 and 1950. Five parties each made a decision to start, or allow, or escalate a war in Korea. Weighing blame (Schuldfrage, I had to look that one up. Never encountered that word before) requires weighing who decided what when.
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