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Michael Palumbo Ph D (born Jan 31, 1944-Brooklyn NY) historical researcher and author of books on war crimes. He discovered the files of the United Nations War Crimes Commission [UNWCC] in the UN archives as announced in an article by Robert Pear in the New York Times on March 28, 1980 [1] by posing as an aide to UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim who had a dossier in the UNWCC files.[2] Only in 1987, under new rules, governments, scholars, researchers and journalist were allowed to examine all files in the UN archives without pledging secrecy.[3]

In November 1989 Palumbo was consultant and interviewee on a 2 hour BBC documentary, Fascist Legacy[4] on the UK cover-up of Mussolini’s genocide in Africa and the Balkans which received considerable press coverage in Italy.[5] Palumbo received thousands of death threats from Italian army veterans which suggested a comparison with the intimidation received by Salman Rushdie earlier in 1989.[6]

In 1992 Rizzoli Libri published "L'olocausto rimosso", his book on the cover-up of Fascist crimes in Libya, Ethiopia,Greece and Yugoslavia which was based on research in 10 languages.[7] Rizzoli was ordered by the government to shred all 8,000 copies.[8] After a recovery in 2020 of a copy that had evidently escaped the pulping[9] the book was published in Italy in November 2024 under the new title of "Le atrocità di Mussolini".[10]

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Press review and retrospective bibliography 1980-2020[11]

Press Review 2024-2025[12]

Bibliography

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  • The uncertain friendship: Hitler-Mussolini, 1922-1933 Thesis (ph. D.)-City University of New York, 1979
  • Nationalism: Essays in Honor of Louis Leo Snyder – Edited by Michael Palumbo and William O. Shanahan (Greenwood Press, 1981)
  • Human Rights: Meaning and History (Robert E. Krieger Publishing, 1982)
  • The Palestinian Catastrophe: The 1948 Expulsion of a People from Their Homeland ( Faber and Faber, 1987; Quartet Books, 1989; There is an Arabic edition published in 1990 by دار الحمراء[13])
  • The Waldheim Files: Myth and Reality ( Faber and Faber, 1988 )
  • Imperial Israel: The History of the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza ( Bloomsbury 1990 & 1992 )
  • L'Olocausto Rimosso ( Rizzoli, 1992) – printed but not distribuited / sent to the shredder
  • Le atrocità di Mussolini ( Edizioni Alegre, 2024)[14]

Self Published ebooks

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  • National Lines of Bullshit
  • 1948 Nakba - Expulsion of Palestinians (Updated version of "The Palestinian Catastrophe")
  • The Myth of Benign Italian Fascism (Updated version of "L'olocausto rimosso"/"Le atrocità di Mussolini"))
  • The Holocaust Betrayed-Israel's Cover-up of Nazis
  • Thank God I'M An Atheist - Destiny Devoid of the Supernatural
  • Growing Up In Mafia Land
  • Too Dumb To Die

References

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  1. ^ "U.S. Seeks Access to U.N. Archives on War Criminals in Inquiry on Nazis" Robert Pear - New York Times - March 28, 1980 https://www.diecifebbraio.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMG_20210516_135440_9822-scaled.jpg Or, for a better scan, the same article with a different title: "Nazis: U.N. Rejects U.S. Request To Use Files In War Criminal Hunt" St.Louis Post-Dispatch - March 31, 1980 https://www.diecifebbraio.info/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SL.jpg
  2. ^ See for example: "Historian exposes Waldheim cover-up attempts" Robin Basu - Calgary Herald - June 30,1989 https://www.diecifebbraio.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Calgary.jpg
  3. ^ "U.N. archives to unvel evidence of Hitler's World War II atrocities" Andrew Katell - The Daily Argus - November 22, 1987 https://www.diecifebbraio.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Daily-Argus.jpg
  4. ^ Italian version of the documentary: https://www.diecifebbraio.info/2023/10/fascist-legacy-di-ken-kirby-1989/
  5. ^ First review in the Italian press: "E Londra salvò quei criminali italiani" Alfio Bernabei - L'Unità - 9 novembre 1989 https://www.diecifebbraio.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bernabei-9-11-1989.jpg
  6. ^ Interview with Michael Palumbo, September 2, 2020: https://www.diecifebbraio.info/2020/09/michael-palumbo-30-anni-dopo/
  7. ^ Article by James Walston announcing its release: "Italiani bonaccioni? No, assassini" L'Indipendente - 12 marzo 1992 https://www.diecifebbraio.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screenshot_2023-04-11-13-35-33-069_com.google.android.apps_.docs2_.jpg
  8. ^ "Quel libro non si stampi!" Simonetta Fiori - La Repubblica - 17 aprile 1992 https://www.diecifebbraio.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Screenshot_2023-04-11-18-56-54-802_com.google.android.apps_.docs3_.jpg "Italy's bloody secret" Rory Carroll - The Guardian 25 June 2001 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/jun/25/artsandhumanities.highereducation
  9. ^ On the discovery of the censored book: https://www.diecifebbraio.info/2020/02/da-fascist-legacy-a-lolocausto-rimosso-il-libro-ritrovato-di-michael-palumbo/ Ivan Serra, Breve storia di un libro censurato e ritrovato, afterword in Michael Palumbo "Le atrocità di Mussolini", Edizioni Alegre, 2024
  10. ^ "La storia strappata al macero" Carlo Greppi - Jacobin Italia - 5 novembre 2024 https://jacobinitalia.it/la-storia-strappata-al-macero/
  11. ^ "Michael Palumbo: Press review and retrospective bibliography 1980-2020".
  12. ^ "Michael Palumbo: Press Review 2024-2025".
  13. ^ "نكبة فلسطين : كيف طرد الفلسطينيون من ديارهم عام 1948".
  14. ^ "Le atrocità di Mussolini, Edizioni Alegre, 2024".
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