Jure Krišto

Jure G. Krišto (born 29 March 1943) is a Croatian historian and religious scholar. From 1992 to 2000, he served as the editor of the Journal of Contemporary History, a publication of the Croatian Institute of History in Zagreb. His work focuses primarily on Croatian history and politics, with an emphasis on the Catholic Church in Croatia. In 2016, he was named to a papal commission studying the life of the controversial wartime Archbishop of Zagreb, Aloysius Stepinac. Several scholars, including Slavko and Ivo Goldstein, Vjekoslav Perica, Neven Budak and Paul Mojzes, among others, have criticized Krišto's works and accused him of minimizing and relativizing the atrocities committed by the Ustaše movement in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), an Axis puppet state that existed during World War II.