Polish PM complains over ‘historical inaccuracies’ in Netflix Holocaust series The Devil Next Door
- Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said series features ‘a map that falsely places several German Nazi concentration camps within modern-day Poland's borders’
- A Netflix spokesman said on Monday that the company is urgently checking the facts
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday published a letter of complaint to online streaming giant Netflix regarding what he called “historical inaccuracies” in its production The Devil Next Door.
Mateusz published the letter on his Facebook page under an explanation in which he said: “Perhaps for the creators it is an insignificant mistake, but it is very detrimental to Poland.”
A Netflix spokesman said on Monday that the company is urgently checking the facts.
Morawiecki says The Devil Next Door, a documentary series about the trial of suspected Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk, a Ukranian man who later made a life for himself in the United States, “involves a map that falsely places several German Nazi concentration camps within modern-day Poland's borders”.
“There is no comment or any explanation whatsoever that these sites were German-operated,” he continues, saying that the map “deceives viewers into believing that Poland was responsible for establishing and maintaining these camps, and for committing the crimes therein”.