Polish Prime Minister strongly complains with Netflix about Holocaust era map
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Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland sent a sharply worded letter to Netflix on Sunday objecting to a map shown in the new documentary series, “The Devil Next Door,” arguing that it suggests that Poland was responsible for Nazi-run concentration camps.
BBC reports that PM Mateusz Morawiecki said a map shown in the series locates the death camps within modern-day Poland’s borders.
This misrepresents Poland as being responsible for the death camps, when it was actually occupied by Germany in World War Two, Mr Morawiecki said.
The New York Times reports “the true-crime series, released last week, focuses on the case of John Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker from the Cleveland areawho was put on trial in the 1980s after he was accused of being “Ivan the Terrible,” a notoriously cruel guard at Nazi-run camps. A map shown in the first episode depicts modern-day Polish boundaries, labeled “Poland,” with geographical markers for death camps such as Sobibor and Treblinka, sites where Demjanjuk is said to have worked. In the third episode, another map locates several death camps within Poland’s boundaries.
Netflix told Reuters it was aware of concerns regarding the documentary.
