I'm Italian, and in Italy we consider everything that is related to WW2 (such as the invasion of Poland, the attack on Pearl Harbour, the D-Day, the Hiroshima bombing,the story of Anne Frank,…) as "our history", even if these events didn't involve Italy. But maybe that's just because those things fall into a category that is called "WW2", which is a category in which we were involved.
How is WW2 perceived in countries that were neutral? Are the same things seen as something "separate from you"?
P.s. from the answers that I'm receiving I understand that I didn't explain myself well: I'm not asking what was the role of neutral countries in WW2. I'm asking "how are things like the attack on Pearl Harbour, operation Barbarossa, … perceived in countries that didn't take part in the war. In Italy we tend to perceive these events as "our history" even if we didn't take part in them.