The streaming giant will make changes to The Devil Next Door, after drawing criticism for showing concentration and extermination camps within modern–day Polish borders
Netflix is to amend its
Holocaust documentary The Devil Next Door, amid criticism from the Polish government about maps that located concentration and extermination camps within the country’s current borders. Released on 4 November, the five–part true-crime series tells the story of John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian man and car plant worker who became a naturalised
American citizen in 1958, and who was later accused of being notorious Nazi concentration camp guard Ivan The Terrible. According to Variety, following complaints by the Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, and other members of the government, the show will be amended to explain that the camps were inside Nazi–occupied territory rather than Poland itself.
In a statement to the entertainment industry site,
Netflix stated: “We are hugely proud of The Devil Next Door and stand by its film-makers, their research and their work. In order to provide more information to our members about the important issues raised in this documentary and to avoid any misunderstanding, in the coming days we will be adding text to some of the maps featured in the series.