"There is no comment or any explanation whatsoever that these sites (on the map) were German-operated".
Poland's prime minister has asked Netflix to make changes to a documentary about the Nazi death camps.
Mateusz Morawiecki says the series, called The Devil Next Door, shows the camps inside the borders of modern-day Poland - implying the country was responsible.
He wants the show to be changed to make it clear they were German-operated.
The camps were built by the Nazis on Polish soil during their brutal occupation of Poland in World War II.
But the map used in the documentary, the prime minister said, implied that Poland existed at that time as an independent nation within its postwar borders and thus could share responsibility for the atrocities.
"There is no comment or any explanation whatsoever that these sites (on the map) were German-operated," Mr Morawiecki said in a letter to Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, dated 10 November and published on the prime minister's Facebook page yesterday.
"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 of 'The Devil Next Door' is nothing short of rewriting history," he said.
.@Netflix, stay true to historical facts!
During the time which the “The Devil Next Door” series describes, Poland’s territory was occupied, and it was Nazi Germany who was responsible for the camps. The map shown in the series does not reflect the actual borders at that time. pic.twitter.com/W5i8C9THo3
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs ?? (@PolandMFA) November 10, 2019
