Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.47325/zj.5.9

How to expose the claims of historical revisionists - five examples

Ivo Goldstein ; Filozofski fakultet Zagreb
Goran Hutinec orcid.org/0000-0002-2788-5246 ; Filozofski fakultet Zagreb

Abstract

In this paper, the two authors deconstruct in detail five relatively wellknown claims of historical revisionists in recent years in Croatia - is the greeting „Za dom spremni“ considered patriotism or (Ustasha) provocation?; did a cultural and educational boom take place in the Independent State of Croatia?; how the revisionists invent that the women and children from the Ustasha camp in Đakovo were killed in Auschwitz (and not in Jasenovac); can the number of victims of the Jasenovac camp be determined only by exhumation?; Is Josip Broz Tito one of the biggest criminals of the 20th century? The authors believe that the pattern used by the revisionists in the described cases is always the same. They distort and even invent facts and various types of manipulations and mystifications, all with immediate political interest. The primary goal of historians is to research and come to new knowledge and present it, not to struggle with unscientific works (or it can be just one of their side jobs). With this text, we wanted to show the scientific and general public what the revisionists intentionally or unintentionally are wrong about and how different their theses are from what belongs to the domain of scrupulous scientific knowledge.

Keywords

revisionism; pseudoscience; Ustasha narrativ; , Jasenovac camp; Đakovo camp; Tito; „Za dom spremni”

Hrčak ID:

281346

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/281346

Publication date:

17.8.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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