This article starts with a premise on how to appropriate "the Polish Bishops' Appeal to the German Colleagues (1965)" as a cross-reference for the history reconciliation in East Asia. Once spread, the Polish Episcopate's letter became a historical event for its message of "we forgive and we ask for forgiveness." The letter signaled the shift of the conventional dichotomy of the collective guilt and innocence from the nationalist political instrumentalism into an ethical vision of forgiveness and reconciliation. With the compliments of the 'avant-garde of reconciliation' and 'the greatest foresight in the postwar Poland,' the "Appeal" showed how the Catholic Church as a transnational agency could be a paradigm changer for the history reconciliation. The "Appeal" carries an empathy for the misery of not innocent German refugees and self-criticism of the transgression of the Polish revenge, which gives transnational memory activists some leeway to overcome the old antagonism between guilt and suffering, and the zero-sum game of the victimhood nationalism. "What would it mean to transpose the Polish Bishops' Letter from Central-Eastern Europe of 1965 into present-day East Asia?" needs to be answered thoughtfully yet, despite some try in this article.