Introduction / by John H. Herz -- Denazification and related policies / by John H. Herz -- Political reconstruction at Bonn / by Karlheinz Niclauss -- Non-state organizations and the problems of redemocratization / by Michael Fichter -- Coming to terms with the Nazi past / by Jutta-B. Lange-Quassowski -- Italy / by Giuseppe DiPalma -- How Austria has coped with two dictatorial legacies / by Frederick C. Englemann -- France, from Vichy to the Fourth Republic / by Roy C. Macridis -- Japan sheds dictatorship / by Arthur E. Tiedemann -- Spain and its Francoist heritage / by Edward Malefakis -- The emergence of Portuguese democracy / by Kenneth Maxwell -- Greece, from the colonels' rule to democracy / by Harry J. Psomiades -- Conclusion / by John H. Herz.