“The Global Anti-Fascist War”: Memory of the Second World War in Non-Western Countries

... African participation in the conflict on the side of the colonial metropoles helped strengthen emerging national consciousness, even though the war itself was largely perceived as “someone else’s conflict.” Iran and Turkey: An Uncomfortable Past In Iran’s historical memory, the country’s involvement in the Second World War occupies an inherently ambiguous place. The war is viewed negatively, shaped by the trauma of Iran’s semi-colonial status in the nineteenth century, when the country was divided ...