V drugem poglavju avtorji predstavijo dogajanje ter represivne ukrepe v času druge svetovne vojne in po njej: dr. Tamara Griesser Pečar (»September 16, 1941: The Outbreak of Civil War«), dr. Mateja Čoh Kladnik (»Nazism in Slovenia: The Maribor Case«), dr. Andreja Valič Zver (»War and Revolution: Slovenia 1941–1945«), dr. Damjan Hančič (»The Origins of the Communist Revolution and the Civil War in Slovenia in 1941–1942«), dr. Renato Podbersič (»A Different Perspective: The Revolution’s Violence in Slovenia, 1941–1945«), dr. Blaž Torkar (»Operation of Fascist Repressive Organs in the Primorska and Istra Regions during the Interwar Period«), dr. Monika Kokalj Kočevar (»Forcible Mobilisation of Upper Carniolans into German Army and Germanisation Process«), dr. Vida Deželak Barič (»Casualties of WWII in Slovenia and the Civil War«), dr. Damjan Hančič, dr. Renato Podbersič, dr. Andreja Valič Zver (»National Report of the Crimes of Communism in Slovenia«), dr. Gregor Jenuš (»Communist Retaliation on Germans in Slovenia and the Destruction of the German Minority«), dr. Mateja Čoh Kladnik (»Farmers – the Class Enemies in Slovenia in the Decade after World War II«), Neža Strajnar (»How the Establishment of the Yugoslav-Italian Border in 1947 Affected the Lives of People in the Border Area – Case Study of Goriška Brda«), dr. Tamara Griesser-Pečar (»The Secret Police after the Tito-Stalin Break«), Jelka Piškurić (»Images of the Past: Remembering Socialism«).

V tretjem poglavju z naslovom »Legacy« pa avtorji pišejo o zapuščini totalitarnih sistemov, in sicer: dr. Lovro Šturm (Slovenia. Law and Non–Law after 1941), dr. Lovro Šturm (The Constitutional Context of Reconciliation with a Totalitarian Past: The Case of Slovenia), dr. Jernej Letnar Černič: (Transitional Justice in Slovenia), dr. Janez Juhant (The Intimidated Nation on the Path to Truth and Freedom), dr. Tomaž Erzar (The Victim Role and Other Covert Emotional Consequences of the Second World War and Their Healing) in Tadej Cankar (Archives of the Former Administration of the State Security Office and its Predecessors: Basic Characteristics and a Comparison of Some Aspects of Custody in Managing Files in Post-Socialist Countries).