By Jenna Anderson – February 23, 2020 09:45 pm EST Share 0 Comments 0 Hunters debuted on Amazon Prime earlier this month, bringing a star-studded and genre-bending take on the concept of Nazi hunters. The show follows a diverse group of people in the 1970s – several of whom are Holocaust survivors – who discover that thousands of Nazis are hiding in plain sight in America. The series has no shortage of controversial and uncomfortable moments, many of which try to illustrate how macabre things were at the concentration camps. One particular sequence, which occurs in the series’ first episode, has already garnered backlash from the official Auschwitz Memorial. In a tweet, which you can check out below, the organization calls the scene in question “dangerous foolishness” and a “caricature”, and argues that it welcomes “future deniers” of the historical tragedy. Auschwitz was full of horrible pain & suffering documented in the accounts of survivors. Inventing a fake game of human chess for @huntersonprime is not only dangerous foolishness & caricature. It also welcomes future deniers. We honor the victims by preserving factual accuracy. pic.twitter.com/UM2KYmA4cw — Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) February 23, 2020 The scene in question occurs midway through the… Read full this story
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