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.