Still More Balance on Jasenovac and the Manipulation of History
Still More Balance on Jasenovac and the Manipulation of History
Author(s): Ljubo BobanSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Historical revisionism, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Notes and comments; concentration camp Jasenovac; Ljubo Boban; history manipulation; Yugoslavia;
Summary/Abstract: It is easy to agree with Mr. Hayden that the magnitude of a crime cannot be measured by numbers and accounting alone. Nevertheless, it is possible that Mr. Hayden does not know that, there have been explicit attempts since the war, to bring forward the numbers and the accounting of victims as the issue of foremost importance. This was surely not done without a certain aim, and not without a certain method. The logic of this accounting was rather simple: the larger the number of victims, the greater the responsibility of perpetrators. If the number of victims is very large, then the perpetrators cannot be individuals or groups, but the whole people. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 06/1992
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 213-217
- Page Count: 5
- Language: English
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