Confronting Memories of World War II

Daniel Chirot is Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Washington. Gi-Wook Shin is director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, as well as holder of the Tong Yang, Korea Foundation, and Korea Stanford Alumni Chair of Korean Studies. Daniel Sneider is associate director of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Center. Contributors include Thomas Berger, Frances Gouda, Julian T. Jackson, Fania Oz-Salzberger, Gilbert Rozman, Igor Torbakov, and Roger Petersen.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Admitting Guilt is Neither Common Nor Easy2. Interrupted Memories3. Different Strokes4. Divided Memories of World War II in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies5. France and the Memory of Occupation6. Historical Reconciliation in the Northeast Asia7. Israelis and Germany after the Second World War8. Historical Memories and International Relations in Northeast Asia9. Divisive Historical Memories10. Guilt, Shame, Balts, JewsBibliographyContributorsIndex

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