Amateur history for (a) future historian(s)
I’m going to finish this series on Carlo Mattogno’s treatment of the murder on 30 November 1941 of thousands of Latvian Jews, plus a thousand Reich Jews who had just arrived in Riga, by making a few general observations. Before that, however, a couple of confessions. First, I’m not an historian, although I do have …
Continue reading “Mattogno on Riga, Part Four: Polishing a Turd”
Having addressed Mattogno’s butchering of the Keine Liquidierung phone note and ignorance of points like basic meteorology, geography, and arithmetic, we move in this post to discussing how Mattogno addresses the aftermath of the shooting of a thousand Reich Jews in Riga on 30 November 1941. The “orthodox” history has it that, Lange having lodged a complaint about this …
Continue reading “Mattogno on Riga, Part Three: Hierarchies Are Hard”
Picking up where I left off in my last post, Carlo Mattogno’s treatment of the mass shooting of Latvian Jews, as well as a thousand newly arrived Reich Jews, on 30 November 1941 is riddled with errors and lapses in logic. After briefly remarking on the discrepancy between the actual date of the shooting and the …
Continue reading “Mattogno on Riga, Part Two: Phone Calls in Riga, Prague, and Berlin”
With my blogmates already having responded to parts of Carlo Mattogno’s magnum opus on the Einsatzgruppen, I decided to have a look at the ten pages Mattogno dedicates to the killings in the fall of 1941 in Riga – a topic I’ve had occasion to look at very closely over the last couple of years. I put together …
Continue reading “Mattogno on Riga, Part One: Keine Liquidierung Revisited”
Inevitable Historicity