Stjepan Razum is a Croatian

church historian Church history or ecclesiastical history as an academic discipline studies the history of Christianity and the way the Christian Church has developed since its inception. Henry Melvill Gwatkin defined church history as "the spiritual side of th ...

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 The Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina () is the permanent assembly of Catholic bishops in Bosnia and Herzegovina founded in 1994 by the Holy See. The president of the Conference is elected among the bishops for a term of five years. ...

and

Episcopal Conference of Croatia The Croatian Bishops' Conference (; ) (HBK) is an episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in Croatia. The Conference was founded on May 15, 1993 after Croatia regained its independence after the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, which ...

; mainly researching on the Catholic priests and nuns killed and persecuted by

Yugoslav communists The League of Communists of Yugoslavia, known until 1952 as the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, was the founding and ruling party of SFR Yugoslavia. It was formed in 1919 as the main communist opposition party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats a ...

. In addition, Razum strongly believes and advertises that the Earth is flat. 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 Popular history, also called pop history, is a broad genre of historiography that takes a popular approach, aims at a wide readership, and usually emphasizes narrative, personality and vivid detail over scholarly analysis. The term is used in con ...

Igor Vukić were both publicly denounced as

Holocaust deniers Denial of the Holocaust is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the genocide of Jews by the Nazis is a fabrication or exaggeration. It includes making one or more of the following false claims: *Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" wa ...

. 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. In January 2019, Razum and Croatian mathematician

Josip Pečarić Josip Pečarić (born 2 September 1948) is a Croatian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics in the Faculty of Textile Technology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts ...

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.Hrvati sve više osporavaju užase Jasenovca: „Tamo se umiralo od bolesti“
„IN4S“, 15/01/2019

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List of books, scientific papers and other articles by Stjepan Razum

"Relativisation of the Ustasha crimes violates the fundamental values of the Constitution, with a lack of reaction opening room to hatred", Ombudsman of the Republic of Croatia, 20 November 2018
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