Edmond Paris

Edmond Paris (25 January 1894 – 1970) was a French author of works on history, particularly the modern history of the Catholic church.

Personal life

He was born in Paris to a Roman Catholic family of scholars. Having come from a religious background, he was very much interested in philosophical, religious, and social matters right from his childhood.

After he left Sorbonne where he was a student, he completed his studies in various parts of the world, such as Rome, Geneva, Salamanca, and Montreal. Having travelled widely and being a devout believer to be in close contact with truth and reality, he was thus able to compare what he learnt with what he saw physically.

His work and life brought him into troubles. In the "Edmond Paris' The Secret History of the Jesuits" Introduction, A. Rivera wrote,

The Edmond Paris works on Roman Catholicism brought about the pledge on the part of the Jesuits to 1) destroy him 2) destroy his reputation, including his family and 3) destroy his work. And even now these great works of Edmond Paris are being tampered with...

• Paris – The Vatican Against Europe (Suppressed Role of Vatican in For Men Ting Both World Wars)(1964)
• Edmond Paris: The Secret History of the Jesuits, Chick Publications, 1975 ISBN 9780937958100 p. 9

Work

According to the author Philip J. Cohen, Paris was "the author of several rabidly anti-Catholic works". Cohen also observes that Paris is described on the jacket of Genocide in satellite Croatia, 1941–1945 (1961) as "a French historian from a Catholic family".

His, probably, the most referenced work is Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941–1945.

About this book L. E. Lee wrote that the book is the frightening documentation of the Ustashi. It reveals how the Croatian Catholic hierarchy, with the full knowledge of the Vatican, supported the local fascist effort to exterminate Serbian Orthodox Christians. Steinberg's "The Roman Catholic Church and Genocide in Croatia" fully corroborates Paris' findings.

The journalist Richard West noted that Paris was one of a group of "anti-Catholic polemicists" who used events in the NDH to attack the Catholic Church as a whole. West observes that Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941–1945 was first published in French, and later in English. It was subsequently reprinted by a Protestant publisher in the United States as Convert or Die..., with a "blood-red cover showing a man kneeling at gunpoint in front of a priest". Despite this horrific imagery, West opines that Paris' book is based on careful research, much of it from Magnum Crimen. West states that Paris relied heavily on the testimony of Serbs who fled Yugoslavia after the war, whose testimony "bears out what we know of the Ustasha massacres from German, Italian and Yugoslav government sources".