ABSTRACT
The mnemonic confluence of the Holocaust and ‘comfort women’, facilitated by the transatlantic and transpacific migration of memory, epitomises the extraterritoriality of the global memory of the Second World War. Memories of unconnected events in the course of the Second World War have met, confronted, cohabitated, reconciled, contested and become entangled in its aftermath. The post-Cold War quarrels over history in East Asia and Eastern Europe brought about a seismic change to the global memory space. The Holocaust and the ‘comfort women’ phenomenon intersect mnemonically a posteriori in the transnational memory space, though no de facto entangled history exists between them. War memories became entangled transnationally creating much more than a mere compilation of memories in the global memory space. The collapse of the Cold War system released the oppressed memories of the Stalinist terror and Nazi collaboration in Eastern Europe, which triggered East European versions of the German Historikerstreit.
