Carlo Mattogno, a specialist in text analysis and critique, is the world’s most prolific and knowledgeable Holocaust scholar. Born in 1951 in Orvieto, Italy, he now lives with his family in a suburb of Rome. In his youth, he carried out advanced linguistic studies in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Starting in the 1980s, Mattogno visited many former concentration camps (Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof, Dachau, Gusen, Mauthausen, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, Lublin-Majdanek, Płaszów, Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibór, Ghetto of Terezin), and conducted thorough research in numerous archives mainly in central and eastern Europe. Particularly fruitful were his visits to several Moscow archives in the 1990s, which hold a vast documentation on Auschwitz as captured by the Red Army toward the end of WWII. This documentation has been the basis of Mattogno’s sizeable number of special studies on the former Auschwitz camp.Even orthodox Holocaust scholars, who usually shy away from quoting revisionist publications like the devil avoids holy water, consider some of Mattogno’s research valuable. For instance, the German official Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute of Contemporary History) in Munich quotes Mattogno’s book on the Central Construction Office in one of its tomes (N. Frei et al., Standort- und Kommandanturbefehle des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz 1940-1945). The German historian Ernst Nolte was impressed by Mattogno’s work, due to which he conceded that, with respect to “their mastery of the source material and especially in their critique of the sources,” the revisionist studies on the topic “probably surpass those of the established historians in Germany” (Streitpunkte, Frankfurt/Berlin 1993, p. 304). And Jean-Claude Pressac, once the orthodox historian’s hero for his attempts at refuting revisionists, characterized Carlo Mattogno as “the best revisionist researcher” (“Entretien avec Jean-Claude Pressac,” in: Valérie Igounet, Histoire du négationnisme en France, Paris 2000, p. 642).In spite of – or maybe due to – his impressive list of scholarly works on the topic, Mattogno remains largely ignored by the mainstream, though, which may also be a result of his writings not being accessible online in an orderly way, as Carlo Mattogno does not have a homepage. Hence, you would never find out about his work if, for example, you took the “information” published by sites like Wikipedia at face value, whose English page on Mattogno, while being vituperative, is completely silent about his comprehensive work. (The Italian section is much more detailed.)
Due to a restricted capacity of the Auschwitz crematoria, hundreds of thousands of corpses of murdered victims are said to have been incinerated in fires in deep trenches. This study investigates all the documentary, physical, and anecdotal evidence. Carlo Mattogno shows that the stories about these open-air incinerations, although based on a kernel of truth, are vastly exaggerated, and their homicidal background is untrue…
It is claimed that at Belzec camp, between 600,000 and 3,000,000 Jews were murdered in 1941 and 1942. The weapons used were alleged to have been diesel-exhaust gas chambers; unslaked lime in trains; high voltage; vacuum chambers… The official image of Belzec is explained and thoroughly criticized. Forensic excavations were performed in the late 1990s in Belzec, the results of which are explained and critically reviewed…
Common information available on the Madjanek camp is thoroughly discredited Polish Communists propaganda. With their exhaustive study, Mattogno and Graf expertly dissect and repudiate the myth of homicidal gas chambers at Majdanek. They also investigated the legendary mass executions of Jews in tank trenches (“Operation Harvest Festival”) critically and prove them groundless…
The morgue of Crematorium I in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp is said to have been the first location where mass gassings of Jews occurred over an extended period of time. This study investigates all the documentary, physical, and anecdotal evidence. Carlo Mattogno shows that this morgue always was only what it was meant to be: a morgue…
According to official historiography, terms like “special treatment,” or “special action,” when occurring in German documents in the context of the “Holocaust”, were camouflage words which really meant the killing of inmates. By bringing numerous documents into their proper historical context, Carlo Mattogno shows that this interpretation is profoundly wrong…
According to communist literature, the Stutthof camp was a “makeshift” extermination camp within the framework of the so-called “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” in 1944. Jürgen Graf and Carlo Mattogno have examined this view of Stutthof. Not only do the authors prove that the Stutthof camp did not serve as a ‘makeshift’ extermination camp…
The so-called “Bunkers” at Auschwitz are claimed to have been the first homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz specifically erected for this purpose in early 1942. With help of the files of the Auschwitz construction office, this study shows that these “Bunkers” never existed, how the rumors of these alleged gas chambers evolved as black propaganda created by resistance groups within the camp, and how this propaganda was transformed into ‘reality’ by historians.
Based upon documents from Moscow archives, this study describes the history, organization, tasks, and procedures of the Central Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and Police Auschwitz. It provides a deep understanding of this office, which was responsible for the planning and construction of the Auschwitz camp complex.
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