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{{Short description|Croatian historian and politician}}
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| office = Member of [[Croatian Parliament|Parliament]]
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1951}}
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| birth_place = [[Zagreb]], [[SFR Yugoslavia]], [[SR Croatia]]
| birth_place = Studenci near [[Imotski]], [[PR Croatia]], [[FPR Yugoslavia]]
| term_start = 16 May 2024
| nationality = [[Croats|Croatian]]
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| alma_mater = [[University of Zagreb]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Zagreb]]
| occupation = [[Professor]], [[politician]]
| party = Independent
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'''Josip Jurčević''' (born in Studenci near [[Imotski]], 1951) is a [[Croatia]]n historian and politician.
'''Josip Jurčević''' (born April 19, 1951<ref>{{Cite web |title=Zastupnik data 1440 |url=http://www.sabor.hr/en/members-parliament/jurcevic-josip-11-term |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=Croatian Parliament |language=en}}</ref>) is a [[Croatia]]n historian and politician.


He grew up in Zagreb. He graduated in history and philosophy from the [[Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb]] in 1975.
Born in the village of Studenci near the southern town of [[Imotski]], Jurčević grew up in [[Zagreb]]. He graduated in history and philosophy from the [[Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb]] in 1975. Josip Jurčević is the father of seven children.<ref name="VL">{{cite web | url=http://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/biografija-predsjednickog-kandidata-josipa-jurcevica-clanak-46651 | title=Biografija predsjedničkog kandidata Josipa Jurčevića | date=November 6, 2009 | work=[[Večernji list]] | language=Croatian | accessdate=2009-12-26}}</ref>
Josip Jurčević is the father of seven children.<ref name="VL">{{cite web | url=http://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/biografija-predsjednickog-kandidata-josipa-jurcevica-clanak-46651 | title=Biografija predsjedničkog kandidata Josipa Jurčevića | date=November 6, 2009 | work=[[Večernji list]] | language=Croatian | accessdate=2009-12-26}}</ref>


He is the author of several books. At the [[University of Osijek]] and at the Pedagogical University in Petrinja he has teaching positions.
He is the author of several books. At the [[University of Osijek]] and at the Pedagogical University in [[Petrinja]] he has teaching positions.


Josip Jurčević is a member of a Croatian War Veterans Association. The ''[[Nacional (weekly)|Nacional]]'' newspaper described him in 2006 as the new voice of the Croatian right.<ref>{{cite journal | url=http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/25498/novi-glas-hrvatske-desnice | title=Novi glas hrvatske desnice | journal=[[Nacional (weekly)|Nacional]] | first=Robert | last=Bajruši | issue=550 | date=May 29, 2006 | language=Croatian | accessdate=2009-12-26|trans_title=New voice of Croatia's right-wing|archivedate=7 July 2012|deadurl=no|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/68z8lq5P9}}</ref>
Josip Jurčević is a member of a Croatian War Veterans Association. The ''[[Nacional (weekly)|Nacional]]'' newspaper described him in 2006 as the new voice of the Croatian right.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/25498/novi-glas-hrvatske-desnice |title=Novi glas hrvatske desnice |journal=[[Nacional (weekly)|Nacional]] |first=Robert |last=Bajruši |issue=550 |date=May 29, 2006 |language=Croatian |accessdate=2009-12-26 |trans-title=New voice of Croatia's right-wing |archivedate=13 June 2011 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613172125/http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/25498/novi-glas-hrvatske-desnice }}</ref>


Jurčević ran as a non-party candidate in the [[Croatian presidential election, 2009–2010]] where he won 2.74% of the vote and was eliminated in the first round.
Jurčević ran as an independent candidate in the [[2009–10 Croatian presidential election|2009 presidential election]] where he won 2.74% of the vote and was eliminated in the first round.

In April 2012, Jurčević was a panelist at an event discussing [[freemasonry]] in Croatia, in which he described society as being organized according to the postulates described in the [[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion|Protocols of the Elders of Zion]].<ref>{{cite web |title='Masoni donose važne odluke u Hrvatskoj, Sabor potvrđuje' |url=https://www.24sata.hr/fun/masoni-donose-vazne-odluke-u-hrvatskoj-sabor-potvruje-263865 |website=24sata |date=April 28, 2012}}</ref>


==Research and views==
==Research and views==
In his book ''Prikrivena stratišta i grobišta jugoslavenskih komunističkih zločina'' Jurčević investigated mass executions in [[SFRJ|Yugoslavia]] after the end of WWII. According to his analysis, Yugoslav Communists committed 89% of all crimes during the war and postwar period, Italian occupiers 8% of all crimes, Yugoslav partisans and Chetniks 1.5%, while the [[NDH]] regime committed 0.13% of the crimes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tportal.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/196958/Komunisticke-vlasti-pocinile-89-posto-zlocina-NDH-0-13.html |title=Jurčević: Komunisti počinili 89 posto zločina, ustaše 0,13 |trans_title=Jurčević: Communists committed 89% of all crimes, Ustashi 0.13% |publisher=T-Portal |language=Croatian |accessdate=February 27, 2014}}</ref> He has stated that ''"The Ustaša movement was not fascist; it was against Fascists"''. He considers the existence of an [[Jasenovac concentration camp|extermination camp in Jasenovac]] to be ''"a myth"'' and mentions ''"a very productive labour camp"''.<ref>http://www.portalnovosti.com/drustvo-za-relativiziranje-proslosti</ref>
In his book ''Prikrivena stratišta i grobišta jugoslavenskih komunističkih zločina'' Jurčević investigated 1,571 concealed execution sites and graves in [[Slovenia]], Croatia, and [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] from [[World War II in Yugoslavia|World War II]] and the postwar period. According to his analysis, [[League of Communists of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav Communists]] were responsible for 89% of the crimes on the researched sites, [[Fascist Italy (1922–1943)|Italian]] [[Italian Fascism|fascists]], [[Chetniks]], [[Ustaše|Ustashas]], and [[Nazism|Nazis]] for 3-4%, while 8% of the sites were still not investigated.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tportal.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/196958/Komunisticke-vlasti-pocinile-89-posto-zlocina-NDH-0-13.html |title=Jurčević: Komunisti počinili 89 posto zločina, ustaše 0,13 |trans-title=Jurčević: Communists committed 89% of all crimes, Ustashi 0.13% |publisher=T-Portal |language=Croatian |accessdate=February 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hrsvijet.net/index.php/kultura/74-knjigozori/34411-knjigozori-miljenka-stojica-mrtvi-govore |title=Knjigozori Miljenka Stojića: Mrtvi govore |publisher=hrsvijet.net |language=Croatian |date=8 November 2014}}</ref> Based on his research, only 0.13% of crimes in "contemporary" [[History of Croatia|Croatian history]] were committed by the Ustashas.<ref name="Nielsen">{{cite web |last1=Nielsen |first1=Christian Axboe |title=Defending Hooliganism Does Croatia No Favours |url=https://balkaninsight.com/2016/06/20/defending-hooliganism-does-croatia-no-favours-06-20-2016/ |website=BalkanInsight |publisher=BIRN |date=June 20, 2016}}</ref>


According to Christian Axboe Nielsen, associate professor of Southeast European Studies at [[Aarhus University]], Jurčević has a track record of publishing works that explore repression and crimes against [[Croats]] while simultaneously also publishing works that deny Croatian crimes, whether during the World War II or during the 1990s, against others.<ref name="Nielsen" /> Jurčević has [[Denial of genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia|dismissed the systematic and mass atrocities]] at the [[Jasenovac concentration camp]] as a "[[Serbia|Serbian]] myth".<ref name="Nielsen" />
In a lecture ''The World Order - Who rules the world from the shadows and how do they do it?'', held in April 2012 for Croatian students, Jurčević recommended them the reading of the alleged ''[[Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'', which he considers a reliable analysis: ''"Important is not how wrote them, important is to recognize that the world order follows to a certain extent those principles. Compare that text with the current situation and you will see much going on according to those postulates."''<ref>http://www.usik.hr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=170:tribina-o-svjetskoj-vladi&catid=48:podrunica-zagreb&Itemid=94</ref><ref>http://www.dnevno.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/masoni-u-rotaryu-i-lionsu-odlucuju-o-svemu-a-sabor-odluke-samo-potvrduje-55824</ref><ref>http://www.24sata.hr/fun/masoni-donose-vazne-odluke-u-hrvatskoj-sabor-potvruje-263865, 28 April 2012</ref>

In his review of Jurčević's work, ''The Origin of the Jasenovac Myth'', [[Germany|German]] historian Holm Sundhaussen notes that while Jurčević is justified in his criticism of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|communist Yugoslavia]]'s Jasenovac casualty numbers, he "willingly and thoughtlessly" adopts the term "Jasenovac myth" and tries to demonstrate, through the omitting of information, that Jasenovac was a "labor camp" and that genocide in the WW2 [[Independent State of Croatia]] did not occur.<ref name="Sundhaussen">{{cite web |last1=Sundhaussen |first1=Holm |title=Rezension 55: Jurčévić, Josip: Die Entstehung des Mythos Jasenovac. Probleme bei der Forschungsarbeit zu den Opfern des II. Weltkrieges auf dem Gebiet von Kroatien. |url=https://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/geschichte/soe/rezensionsseite/rezension55.html |website=Osteuropa-Institut|date=10 December 2007 }}</ref>

Jurčević is a member of the Society for Research of the Threefold Jasenovac Camp.<ref name="Novosti">{{cite web |title=Društvo za relativiziranje prošlosti |url=https://www.portalnovosti.com/drustvo-za-relativiziranje-proslosti |website=Novosti |date=May 15, 2015}}</ref> The NGO claims that the Ustashas ran a labour camp at Jasenovac for enemies of the regime, but it says that the real death camp was run by the Yugoslav Communists, which imprisoned Ustasha members and regular [[Croatian Home Guard (World War II)|Croatian Home Guard]] army troops until 1948, then alleged [[Stalinism|Stalinists]] until 1951.<ref name="Milekic">{{cite web |last1=Milekic |first1=Sven |title=Zagreb Event Challenges Concentration Camp Death Toll |url=https://balkaninsight.com/2017/01/25/panel-downplaying-jasenovac-camp-victims-approved-by-zagreb-s-administration-01-25-2017/ |website=BalkanInsight |publisher=BIRN |date=January 25, 2017}}</ref> In television appearances, Jurčević has stated that the camp was not conceived for the systematic murder of people but that it was a "very productive work camp" ("''Jasenovac je bio vrlo produktivan radni logor''") and that the Ustasha movement was not [[Fascism|fascist]] but was at odds with fascists.<ref name="Novosti" />


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Latest revision as of 00:17, 4 July 2024

Josip Jurčević
Member of Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 May 2024
ConstituencyVII electoral district
Personal details
Born (1951-04-19) 19 April 1951 (age 73)
Studenci near Imotski, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
Political partyIndependent
Alma materUniversity of Zagreb
OccupationProfessor, politician

Josip Jurčević (born April 19, 1951[1]) is a Croatian historian and politician.

Born in the village of Studenci near the southern town of Imotski, Jurčević grew up in Zagreb. He graduated in history and philosophy from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 1975. Josip Jurčević is the father of seven children.[2]

He is the author of several books. At the University of Osijek and at the Pedagogical University in Petrinja he has teaching positions.

Josip Jurčević is a member of a Croatian War Veterans Association. The Nacional newspaper described him in 2006 as the new voice of the Croatian right.[3]

Jurčević ran as an independent candidate in the 2009 presidential election where he won 2.74% of the vote and was eliminated in the first round.

In April 2012, Jurčević was a panelist at an event discussing freemasonry in Croatia, in which he described society as being organized according to the postulates described in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.[4]

Research and views

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In his book Prikrivena stratišta i grobišta jugoslavenskih komunističkih zločina Jurčević investigated 1,571 concealed execution sites and graves in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina from World War II and the postwar period. According to his analysis, Yugoslav Communists were responsible for 89% of the crimes on the researched sites, Italian fascists, Chetniks, Ustashas, and Nazis for 3-4%, while 8% of the sites were still not investigated.[5][6] Based on his research, only 0.13% of crimes in "contemporary" Croatian history were committed by the Ustashas.[7]

According to Christian Axboe Nielsen, associate professor of Southeast European Studies at Aarhus University, Jurčević has a track record of publishing works that explore repression and crimes against Croats while simultaneously also publishing works that deny Croatian crimes, whether during the World War II or during the 1990s, against others.[7] Jurčević has dismissed the systematic and mass atrocities at the Jasenovac concentration camp as a "Serbian myth".[7]

In his review of Jurčević's work, The Origin of the Jasenovac Myth, German historian Holm Sundhaussen notes that while Jurčević is justified in his criticism of communist Yugoslavia's Jasenovac casualty numbers, he "willingly and thoughtlessly" adopts the term "Jasenovac myth" and tries to demonstrate, through the omitting of information, that Jasenovac was a "labor camp" and that genocide in the WW2 Independent State of Croatia did not occur.[8]

Jurčević is a member of the Society for Research of the Threefold Jasenovac Camp.[9] The NGO claims that the Ustashas ran a labour camp at Jasenovac for enemies of the regime, but it says that the real death camp was run by the Yugoslav Communists, which imprisoned Ustasha members and regular Croatian Home Guard army troops until 1948, then alleged Stalinists until 1951.[10] In television appearances, Jurčević has stated that the camp was not conceived for the systematic murder of people but that it was a "very productive work camp" ("Jasenovac je bio vrlo produktivan radni logor") and that the Ustasha movement was not fascist but was at odds with fascists.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Zastupnik data 1440". Croatian Parliament. Retrieved 2024-07-04.
  2. ^ "Biografija predsjedničkog kandidata Josipa Jurčevića". Večernji list (in Croatian). November 6, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-26.
  3. ^ Bajruši, Robert (May 29, 2006). "Novi glas hrvatske desnice" [New voice of Croatia's right-wing]. Nacional (in Croatian) (550). Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 2009-12-26.
  4. ^ "'Masoni donose važne odluke u Hrvatskoj, Sabor potvrđuje'". 24sata. April 28, 2012.
  5. ^ "Jurčević: Komunisti počinili 89 posto zločina, ustaše 0,13" [Jurčević: Communists committed 89% of all crimes, Ustashi 0.13%] (in Croatian). T-Portal. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
  6. ^ "Knjigozori Miljenka Stojića: Mrtvi govore" (in Croatian). hrsvijet.net. 8 November 2014.
  7. ^ a b c Nielsen, Christian Axboe (June 20, 2016). "Defending Hooliganism Does Croatia No Favours". BalkanInsight. BIRN.
  8. ^ Sundhaussen, Holm (10 December 2007). "Rezension 55: Jurčévić, Josip: Die Entstehung des Mythos Jasenovac. Probleme bei der Forschungsarbeit zu den Opfern des II. Weltkrieges auf dem Gebiet von Kroatien". Osteuropa-Institut.
  9. ^ a b "Društvo za relativiziranje prošlosti". Novosti. May 15, 2015.
  10. ^ Milekic, Sven (January 25, 2017). "Zagreb Event Challenges Concentration Camp Death Toll". BalkanInsight. BIRN.
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