Poland: PM angrily reacts to Netflix documentary on Nazi death camp

Poland's prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, recently wrote a letter to the online video streaming platform, Netflix, angrily reacting to a documentary they had made on Nazi death camps and insisting changes be made to the documentary. Morawiecki wrote a letter to the CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings, and stated that it was important to respect and honour the memory and keep in mind the truth about World War ll and the Holocaust.

"A terrible but unintentional mistake by Netflix"

Morawiecki had also attached a map showcasing an image of 1942 Europe to the letter alongside Witold Pilecki's account, a man who was voluntarily imprisoned in a death camp in Auschwitz and wrote about his experiences after hatching a successful attempt in escaping the camp. Morawiecki added that a map is shown in the documentary located death camps within the borders of modern-day Poland and stated that this falsely showed Poland being responsible for the death camps when it was actually under German control during World War ll. He accused that a few things on Netflix were highly inaccurate and had rewritten history. He also said that a terrible but an unintentional mistake had been made by Netflix.

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A 2018 law by Poland

In 2018, Poland had introduced formal laws that criminalized language that implied that Poland was responsible for the atrocities that were actually committed by Nazi Germany. Although, criticism on a global level forced Poland to taken down the punishment of three-year jail terms.

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The beginning of World War ll

Nazi Germany had invaded Poland in the year 1939 that marked the beginning of World War ll. The Germans were responsible for building concentration camps that included Auschwitz, taking the lived of millions of people and most of them were Jews. However, the majority of Poland's Jewish population was killed during the German occupation.

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Atrocities against the Jews

According to reports, during and after World War ll ended, there were accounts of a few Polish atrocities against the Jews and other civilian populations. In the year 1941, Polish villagers in Jedwabne, probably after being instigated by the Nazis, burned alive more than 300 of their neighbours who were Jewish.

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(With inputs from agencies)