Carlo Mattogno (born 1951) is an Italian writer and

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. He served on the Advisory Board of the

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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. . 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

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publishing house Sentinella d'Italia in 1985. Further outlets for his works are the neofacist publisher Edizioni di Ar, noted holocaust denier

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'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 "

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". Together with his brother, the

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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"

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.

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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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mattogno, Carlo 1951 births Living people People from Orvieto Holocaust deniers Holocaust denial in Italy Holocaust denial in France

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