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The Real Auschwitz Chronicle
Authored by Carlo Mattogno
Carlo Mattogno, The Real Auschwitz Chronicle, Part 1: The History of the Auschwitz Camps Told by Authentic Wartime Documents, 500 pages, index, bibliography, ISBN: 978-1-59148-288-8; Part 2: Transports, Occupancy, Mortality, 394 pages, b&w illustrated, ISBN: 978-1-59148-312-0; Castle Hill Publishers, Bargoed, 2023.
Already in our book announcement of Issue No. 4 of the previous volume of Inconvenient History (2022), we mentioned briefly that this massive tome was awaiting an English translation. Due to unparalleled generous support, for which we are very grateful, we managed to get this project lined up and carried out much faster than initially anticipated.
As early as 1998, we came up with the idea of writing a chronological history of Auschwitz based exclusively on impeccable war-time sources, rather than a toxic mixture of unreliable witness statements, dubious second-hand sources and misrepresented archival material, as are the main characteristics of Danuta Czech’s (in)famous 1989/1990 Auschwitz Chronicle 1939-1945.
The project went dormant after the initial lead editor, architect Willy Wallwey, dropped out in the early 2000s. We dusted it up in 2020 and asked Italian researcher Carlo Mattogno to compile a chronological list and summary of all the documents he knows of and considers relevant. He was quick to comply, and then we beefed up his long list of primary sources with summaries of all the Auschwitz garrison and headquarters orders known to mankind.
Concurrently, Carlo submitted a typescript he had intended to be a stand-alone book: Long tables of statistical figures of transport to and from Auschwitz, of the camp’s documented occupancy, and most importantly of the inmates’ mortality. But how do you advertise a book that consists almost exclusively of long lists of numbers? We decided to include this massive data collection of Auschwitz camp statistics in this project as a second part, rather than as a stand-alone item.
This is Volume 48 of our prestigious series Holocaust Handbooks. With this gap filled and Volumes 49 and 50 already released, we finally crossed the finish line of 50 volumes! (Although it’s probably not the end.)
Print and eBook versions of the current English edition can be obtained from Armreg Ltd at armreg.co.uk.
The introductions to both Part 1 and Part 2 of this set are reproduced earlier in this issue of Inconvenient History.
The most important historical-documentary source about Auschwitz published so far is Danuta Czech’s Auschwitz Chronicle, first published in 1989 (German edition). However, the author, working from communist Poland, has given an extremely biased picture of the camp: It is limited to the alleged extermination of Jews and Gypsies, which is presented as virtually the sole purpose of Auschwitz. A separate study (volume 47 of the present series) has documented in detail that Czech’s work is a mendacious conglomeration of assumptions, distortions, inventions and omissions.
The opening of Eastern archives after the collapse of the Eastern bloc has provided access to vast collections of sources, opening up immense historical horizons that require a complete revision of the communist propaganda view of history prevalent during the Cold War, which is attempted herewith.
This present work focuses on sources that were unknown or inaccessible to Czech, or that she intentionally passed over. The purpose is to provide the reader and researcher with a more-comprehensive historical picture of Auschwitz Camp activities. In the first, chronological part of the present study, the focus is on documents concerning the sanitary and medical situation and the planning and construction of the camp. They show, for example, that there were always tens of thousands of prisoners at Auschwitz who were not fit for work: “inpatients”, “invalids” and “juveniles”. Other documents show that a lot of effort was made to nurse sick prisoners back to health. These prisoners were therefore not killed, as Czech could falsely claim by hiding these documents from her readers, but they persistently appear in the documents as alive and kicking.
The only merit of Czech’s Auschwitz Chronicle is the listing of deportation transports that arrived at Auschwitz. However, her approach is purely chronological, making it impossible to get an overall picture. Since compilations of overall figures are far more important than individual data, the statistical aspects of the history of Auschwitz have not been integrated here into the first, calendrical part, but are reproduced in tabular form in the second part. This also lists what Czech reprehensibly neglected: the occupancy rate of the camp as well as the verifiable mortality rates. This also finally provides a definitive answer to the question: How many prisoners demonstrably died in the Auschwitz camp? The documents tell us: 135,000 – nowhere near the million usually claimed, but still shockingly high. Moreover, the number of inmates transferred from Auschwitz to other camps in 1944/1945 is meticulously documented: about 280,500 witnesses to what happened at Auschwitz. The Germans had nothing to hide.
Miscellaneous Books
Castle Hill released four new English editions of previously published books:
Nicholas Kollerstrom, Breaking the Spell: The Holocaust, Myth & Reality, 6th edition (January 2023)
Last year, we had this best-selling book (among our books) translated into Spanish. When editing the raw translation files in preparation for a Spanish edition, several corrections and numerous updates were made, which we then transferred to the English edition. At the end, we issued a new English edition, but due to a lack of access to the Spanish-language market, we held back on the Spanish edition for now. It will appear at some later date.
Print and eBook versions of the current edition of this book can be obtained from Armreg Ltd at armreg.co.uk.
Germar Rudolf, Lectures on the Holocaust: Controversial Issues Cross-Examined, 4th edition (January 2023)
Just like Kollerstrom’s Breaking the Spell, Lectures on the Holocaust was also on our list of books that should be translated into Spanish. In January of this year, we had a test subscription to a professional neural-network driven translation software that translates entire books, with all formatting retained, within just a few minutes. Before testing it on Lectures, we included the latest corrections and revisions. While the Spanish translation is awaiting some native Spanish speaking editor’s attention, we managed to get the new English edition finalized rather swiftly.
Print and eBook versions of the current English edition can be obtained from Armreg Ltd at armreg.co.uk.
Walter N. Sanning, The Dissolution of Eastern European Jewry, 3rd edition (February 2023)
In 2018, we were contacted by Wilhelm Niederreiter, better known under his pen name Walter N. Sanning, asking us to add a supplement to his 1983 book that includes several updates. The resulting new edition appeared in the original German edition in November 2018, but only now did me manage to include these supplements in a new English edition.
Print and eBook versions of the current English edition can be obtained from Armreg Ltd at armreg.co.uk.
Germar Rudolf, Bungled: “Denying the Holocaust”, 3rd edition (February 2023)
This book received a facelift by updating all references in text and footnotes, and by fixing errors, typos, etc. There is nothing revolutionary new about this edition; it’s just a more up-to-date version.
Print and eBook versions of the current English edition can be obtained from Armreg Ltd at armreg.co.uk.
Bibliographic information about this document: Inconvenient History, 2024, Vol. 15, No. 1
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