Auschwitz Memorial Criticizes Amazon’s ‘Hunters’ For Historical Inaccuracies, Creator David Weil Responds – Updated

has responded to the backlash in regards to the new Amazon series about a band of Nazi hunters in 1977.

It was for this reason that I made the decision that all of the concentration camp prisoners in the series would be given tattoos above the number 202,499. 202,499 is the highest recorded number given to a prisoner at Auschwitz. I didn’t want one of our characters to have the number of a real victim or a real survivor, as I did not want to misrepresent a real person or borrow from a specific moment in an actual person’s life.

If the larger philosophical question is can we ever tell stories about the Holocaust that are not documentary, I believe we can and should. HUNTERS, like a myriad of acclaimed films on the subject, does not always adhere to literal truth in its pursuit of capturing the representational truth of the Holocaust.

“Auschwitz was full of horrible pain & suffering documented in the accounts of survivors,” they tweeted. “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.”

The show clearly has a comic book style tone. They never claimed it to be a documentary. If this is dangerous, then the majority of tv shows and movies should be considered dangerous.

'Dangerous'? Come on. It's a TV show, not a Claude Lanzmann documentary.

Really? They’re criticizing a TV show that’s NOT a documentary for being “inaccurate”?

It’s also BORING.

Wait till they see Inglorious Basterds!

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