Netflix will change the series about the Ukrainian guard of concentration camps due to Polish discontent
The creators of the Netflix series The Devil Next Door have agreed to add annotations to a map of Europe that outraged the Polish prime minister.
The Devil Next Door is set during World War II. The plot tells about the hunt for Ivan Demyanjuk, a native of the Ukrainian SSR who was captured and became a guard in concentration camps. Demyanjuk, according to witnesses, was distinguished by cruelty and received the nickname Ivan the Terrible.
A few days ago, Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Moravecki saidthat the series made historical mistakes. In a letter to Netflix CEO Rob Hastings, he demanded that the map be corrected.
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“[The series] doesn’t comment or explain at all that these camps were run by the Germans. The map is not only incorrect, it leads the viewer to believe that these camps were organized and run by the Poles,” Morawiecki wrote.
In the series, occupied Poland is depicted within its current borders. Poland in the series extends quite far east, into the territory controlled by the Reich Commissariat of Ukraine, the Nazi occupation regime operating in Ukraine, and north into the territory of the Ostland Reich Commissariat.
Netflix said Friday that they would not correct the map, but would add comments to indicate that the concentration camps were not created by Poles, but by the Nazis. A company representative explained that the authors of the series took a map of Poland from Israeli and American television stories about the trial of Ivan Demyaniuk.
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In Poland, they are actively fighting allegations of cooperation with the Nazi regime during World War II. In 2018, a law was passed in the country that criminalized such allegations. Later, criminal liability was replaced by administrative.
The law also prohibits calling the Nazi death camps deployed in Poland “Polish” and provides for liability for denying the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists who collaborated with the Third Reich.
Israel criticized the law, accusing Poland of trying to rewrite history.
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After the war, the guard of the concentration camps Ivan Demyaniuk was tried in three countries - the USA, Germany and Israel. In Spain, he was accused of complicity in the genocide. In April 1988, he was sentenced to death by an Israeli court, but in 1993, the sentence was canceled.
In the 2009 year, the USA extradited Demyanyuk to Germany, the German prosecutor accused him of complicity in the murder in 27 900 cases. Demyanjuk was sentenced to five years in prison, but released at the time of appeal.
Demyanjuk died in a nursing home in the German resort of Bad Feilnbach at the age of 91.
As ForumDaily wrote earlier:
- Prime Minister of Poland wrote a letter from Netflix streaming company, insisting on changes to the documentary about the Nazi death camps, The Devil Next Door.
- Mateusz Moravecki stated that on the map shown in the series, death camps are located within modern Polish borders. This, according to Moravecki, imposes false responsibility on Poland for the death camps, while the country was actually under German occupation during World War II.
- Moravecki, in a letter to Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, said it was important to "honor and preserve the truth about World War II and the Holocaust." He accused Netflix of having some of their films contain “significant inaccuracies” and “attempts to rewrite history.”
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