Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
32,1 (2002) 52-64
Keywords:
Tuđman, Franjo
;
Jasenovac (Concentration camp)
;
Antisemitism
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust denial
Abstract:
Historical revisionism in Croatia, focusing on attempts to exonerate the wartime Croatian state from the guilt of genocide, arose in the early 1990s. It sprang not only from efforts to rehabilitate wartime Croatia and thus to reinforce the legitimation of present-day Croatia, but also as a reaction to Serbian historical revisionism depicting the Croats as a genocidal nation. The basic text of the Croatian revisionists is Tudjman's book "The Horrors of War". Dwells on pp. 316-320 of the book, where Tudjman wrote about Jews in the Jasenovac camp. Besides his allegations that no more than 4,000 people perished in Jasenovac, Tudjman states that the Jews were the inner authority of the camp and were guilty of many killings. Shows that Tudjman based this part of his book on utterly unreliable sources - a statement by Vojislav Prnjatovic and memoirs by the controversial Ante Ciliga - and dismissed numerous other eyewitness accounts. Slobodan Drakulić, "Revising Franjo Tudman's Revisionism? A Response to Ivo and Slavko Goldstein" ["East European Jewish Affairs" 32, 2 (Win 2002) 61-69] criticizes the Goldsteins for attempting to demonstrate that Croatian nationalism and revisionism would not exist without their Serbian counterparts. Tudjman was converted to Croatian nationalism at the same time the Serbians turned nationalist - in the 1960s. Contends that Tudjman resorted to rewriting history in order to justify his transformation as a former communist turned nationalist, as well as to gain the support of the former Allied countries.
Description / Table of Contents:
Drakulic, Slobodan. Revising Franjo Tuđman's revisionism? A response to Ivo and Slavko Goldstein. Ibid. 32,2 (2002) 61-69.
DOI:
10.1080/13501670208577963
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