Jože Dežman (born 26 September 1955) is a Slovenian historian, museum curator, philosopher and editor. He served as the director of the National Museum of Contemporary History in Ljubljana. Since March 2012, he has been the director of the Archives of Slovenia, where he had replaced . Matić characterised the replacement as politically motivated and pointed out that Dežman is not an archivist. Dežman described the fundamental characteristics of the crimes following the Second World War as follows: