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Poland reacts angrily to Netflix Nazi death camp documentary
 13 Nov 2019
Poland's Prime Minister has written to streaming company Netflix insisting on changes to The Devil Next Door, a documentary about the Nazi death camps, the BBC reports. 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. Netflix told Reuters it was aware of concerns regarding the documentary.

Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, which marked the beginning of the war. The Germans built concentration camps including Auschwitz, killing millions of people, most of them Jews.

Mr. Morawiecki said in his letter to Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, that it was important to "honor the memory and preserve the truth about World War II and the Holocaust". He accused "certain works" on Netflix of being "hugely inaccurate" and "rewriting history". The PM attached a map of Europe in late 1942 to the letter, as well as an account by Witold Pilecki, who was voluntarily imprisoned in Auschwitz and wrote about his experiences after successfully escaping. "I believe that this terrible mistake has been committed unintentionally," Morawiecki added.

Last year, Poland introduced laws criminalizing language implying Polish responsibility for the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany. However, an international outcry prompted the government to remove the threat of three-year jail terms.

More than five million Poles were killed during World War Two, including up to three million Jews who were murdered in the Nazi Holocaust. The death camps were planned and operated by occupying German SS units. There were, however, some Polish atrocities against Jews and other civilians during and after the war.
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