A Netflix spokesperson responds to the Poland's Prime Minister's accusations: 'We are aware of the concerns regarding 'The Devil Next Door' and are urgently looking into the matter'
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has complained to Netflix about allegedly historically false maps of Poland in World War II in the streaming service's documentary seriesHis main objection is that the series shows a map that "falsely places several German Nazi concentration camps in modern-day Poland's borders."
"There is no comment or any explanation whatsoever that these sites were German-operated," Morawiecki said in a letter to Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, published on the prime minister's Facebook page on Monday. "As my country did not even exist at that time as an independent state, and millions of Poles were murdered at these sites, this element ofdoes not give a detailed analysis of the role Poles played in World War II — and does not mention the fact that Poles saved many thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by hiding and sheltering them — the focus of the series is very much on the Israeli trial of war criminal John Demjanjuk.
Iit replicates a map used in the trial placing those camps on Polish territory at a time when, technically, they were on Nazi-occupied territory in what Germany authorities referred to as the General Government or General Governorate .
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