Carlo Mattogno (born 1951) is an Italian writer and

Holocaust denier Denial of the Holocaust is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the genocide of Jews by the Nazis is a fabrication or exaggeration. It includes making one or more of the following false claims: *Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" wa ...

. 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 that 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 The ''Journal of Historical Review'' was a non-peer reviewed, pseudoacademic, neo-Nazi periodical focused on promoting Holocaust denial. It was published by the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), based in Torrance, California. It ran quarter ...

''. As of 2016, Mattogno is an 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 Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, economics, authority, property ...

websites. According to these sources, he was born in

Orvieto Orvieto () is a city and ''comune'' in the Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy, situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The city rises dramatically above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are compl ...

, 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 Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method. Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable cl ...

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 which includes significant elements of fascism. Neo-fascism usually includes ultranationalism, ultraconservatism, racial supremacy, right-wing populism, authoritarianism, nativism, xe ...

publishing house Sentinella d'Italia in 1985. Further outlets for his works are the neofascist 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 chemistry ...

'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". Together with his brother, the

Traditionalist Catholic Traditionalist Catholicism is a movement that emphasizes beliefs, practices, customs, traditions, liturgical forms, devotions and presentations of teaching associated with the Catholic Church before the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). ...

Gian Pio Mattogno, he regularly publishes in the extreme right-wing magazine ''Orion''. Carlo Mattogno collaborated with Holocaust denier

Jürgen Graf Jürgen Graf (15 August 1951 – 14 January 2025) was a Swiss author, teacher and Holocaust denier. From August 2000 he was living in exile, later in his life 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 ''

''. He is an 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 ''

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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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