Stjepan Razum

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DRUŠTVO ZA ISTRAŽIVANJE TROSTRUKOG LOGORA JASENOVAC
AbbreviationDRUŠTVO JASENOVAČKI LOGORI I DJL
FormationJune 6, 2014;9 years ago (2014-06-06)
28062871821 (OIB)
Registration no.21011555
HeadquartersPavlenski put 7d
Zagreb, Croatia
President
Stjepan Razum
Stjepan Razum, Mate Rupić, Igor Vukić [1] [2]

Stjepan Razum is a Croatian church historian and Roman Catholic priest. He is the director of the Archdiocesan Archives in Zagreb and a member of the Commission for the Croat martyrology of the Episcopal Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Episcopal Conference of Croatia; mainly researching on the Catholic priests and nuns killed and persecuted by Yugoslav communists. [3]

In addition, Razum strongly believes and advertises that the Earth is flat. [4]

Razum is also the president of Society for Research of the Threefold Jasenovac Camp ("Društvo za istraživanje trostrukog logora Jasenovac"); he and the secretary of that society popular historian Igor Vukić were both publicly denounced as Holocaust deniers. [5]

In 2018, Razum published a Facebook post expressing support for Richard Williamson, a member of a fringe Catholic breakaway movement who was convicted of Holocaust denial in Germany. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

In January 2019, Razum and Croatian mathematician Josip Pečarić published a book titled Razotkrivena jasenovačka laž ("The Jasenovac Lie Revealed"), which denies that the Ustaše operated an extermination camp at Jasenovac, arguing instead that it was a forced labor camp. [12]

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