Carlo Mattogno (born 1951) is an Italian writer and
Holocaust denier
Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that falsely asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a myth, fabrication, or exaggeration. Holocaust deniers make one or more of the following false statements:
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He served on the Advisory Board of the
Institute for Historical Review
The Institute for Historical Review (IHR) is a United States-based nonprofit organization which promotes Holocaust denial. It is considered by many scholars to be central to the international Holocaust denial movement. Self-described as a " his ...
and as an editor of its publication ''
Journal of Historical Review''. As of 2016, Mattogno is editorial advisor and columnist for a journal published by the
Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, also a Holocaust denial organisation.
Life
There is little information available about Mattogno aside from
revisionist or
right-wing websites. According to these sources, he was born in
Orvieto, Italy and is now living with his family in a suburb of Rome. It is claimed that he has studied Latin, Greek, Philosophy, and has undertaken Oriental and religious studies. There is nonetheless no verifiable evidence concerning the date or length of his studies nor whether he has graduated.
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Mattogno is among Holocaust deniers who design themselves as a "school" of historiography. He first came to attention with two
pseudoscientific studies, ''Il rapporto Gerstein: anatomia di un falso'' (''The Gerstein Report – Anatomy of a Fraud'') and ''Il mito dello sterminio ebraico'' (''The Myth of the Extermination of the Jews''), which he published in the Italian
neo-fascist
Neo-fascism is a post-World War II far-right ideology that includes significant elements of fascism. Neo-fascism usually includes ultranationalism, racial supremacy, populism, authoritarianism, nativism, xenophobia, and anti-immigration s ...
publishing house Sentinella d'Italia in 1985. Further outlets for his works are the neofacist publisher Edizioni di Ar, noted holocaust denier
Germar Rudolf
Germar Rudolf (born 29 October 1964), also known as Germar Scheerer, is a German chemist and a convicted Holocaust denier.
Background
Rudolf was born in Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse. In 1983 he took his Abitur in Remscheid, then studied chemistr ...
's ''Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung'' and Rudolf's Castle Hill Publishers in Uckfield, UK, the
revisionist ''L'Association des Anciens Amateurs de Récits de Guerres et d'Holocaustes'', and
Ahmed Rami's extreme right wing-
islamistic website "
Radio Islam
Radio Islam was a Swedish Islamic radio channel, now a website. The EU's racism monitoring organization has called it "one of the most radical right-wing antisemitic homepages on the net".
Mission
The Radio Islam website states that it "is work ...
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Together with his brother, the
Traditionalist Catholic
Traditionalist Catholicism is the set of beliefs, practices, customs, traditions, liturgical forms, devotions, and presentations of Catholic teaching that existed in the Catholic Church before the liberal reforms of the Second Vatican Council ( ...
Gian Pio Mattogno, he regularly publishes in the extreme right-wing magazine ''Orion''. Carlo Mattogno collaborated with Holocaust denier
Jürgen Graf
Jürgen Graf (born 15 August 1951) is a Swiss author, former teacher and Holocaust denier. Since August 2000 he has been living in exile, and is currently living in Russia, working as a translator, with his wife.
Background
Born in Basel, Graf s ...
. He served on the Advisory Board of the "revisionist"
Institute for Historical Review
The Institute for Historical Review (IHR) is a United States-based nonprofit organization which promotes Holocaust denial. It is considered by many scholars to be central to the international Holocaust denial movement. Self-described as a " his ...
and as an editor of its publication ''
Journal of Historical Review''.
He is editorial advisor and columnist for the journal published by the
Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH). The group is also a promoter of Holocaust denial.
References
Further reading
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External links
Picture of Mattogno at the IHR's 1994 conference as it appeared on the cover of the ''
Journal of Historical Review''
Mattogno's page on the VHO Website
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1951 births
Living people
People from Orvieto
Holocaust deniers
Holocaust denial in Italy
Holocaust denial in France