%0 PDF %T The Cold War and International Political Influences on War Memory in Postwar Japan and Germany %A Banks, Corey J. %8 2005-06-20 %I Tufts Archival Research Center %R http://localhost/files/hh63t669w %X This paper is a comparative study of the postwar legacy of war crimes committed by Japan and Germany during World War II. I analyze how the initial postwar conditions and the development of the Cold War impacted the way that West Germany, East Germany, and Japan interpreted and portrayed the war with respect to their own domestic populations, as well as the foreign policy implications of each state's concept of war memory. I then trace how these portrayals evolved over the course of the Cold War in response to political developments, and finally I look at how Japan and reunified Germany responded to the end of the Cold War. %[ 2022-10-07 %~ Tufts Digital Library %W Institution