controversies as they pertain to what was the bloodiest war in history, at least in terms of absolute numbers of deaths, World War II. The volume's contributing authors promise to "look at. Japan, China, and South Korea figure in five chapters Germany, Israel (or Jews), and the United States in three Austria in two France, the Netherlands, the Baltic nations (especially, Lithuania), Indonesia, and Russia in one each. There is only minimal subject matter overlap. The essays also clarify the tensions between memory and historical scholarship and discuss such subjects as guilt, shame, collaboration with the enemy, remorse, apology, motivation, colonial and wartime wrongs, national pride, genocide, historical revisionism, Cold War tensions, comparative studies, textbook content, and modes of remembrance like museums and monuments. Each explores the negative, sometimes horrendous consequences of the appeal to memories, real or perceived, in nationalistic rhetoric. This important work consists of ten chapters arranged in four parts.
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