Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Daniel Chirot, Gi-Wook Shin, and Daniel Sneider -- I. The Debate over Remembrances of World War II -- 1. Admitting Guilt Is Neither Common Nor Easy: Comparing World War II Memories in Europe and East Asia - Daniel Chirot -- 2. Interrupted Memories: The Debate over Wartime Memory in Northeast Asia - Daniel Sneider -- II. Divided Memories about Collaboration and Resistance -- 3. Different Strokes: Historical Realism and the Politics of History in Europe and Asia - Thomas Berger -- 4. Divided Memories of World War II in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies: Sukarno and Anne Frank as Icons of Dutch Historical Imagination - Frances Gouda -- 5. France and the Memory of Occupation - Julian Jackson -- III. Paths to Reconciliation -- 6. Historical Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: Past Efforts, Future Steps, and the U.S. Role - Gi-Wook Shin -- 7. Israelis and Germany after the Second World War: Is Reconciliation Possible? Can Universal Lessons Be Drawn? - Fania Oz-Salzberger -- IV. The Past as Present and the Psychological Response to Different Kinds of Memory -- 8. Historical Memories and International Relations in Northeast Asia - Gilbert Rozman -- 9. Divisive Historical Memories: Russia and Eastern Europe - Igor Torbakov -- 10. Guilt, Shame, Balts, Jews - Roger Petersen -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.