Amazon faces double whammy for selling Nazi propaganda and for made-up Holocaust scenes in its new Prime show
Get the Full StoryGettyAmazon faces fierce criticism for selling antisemitic books and "caricaturing" the suffering of Holocaust survivors on its new Prime series "Hunters."
On Friday, the Auschwitz Memorial's official Twitter account tweeted that Amazon was making a profit on "selling vicious antisemitic Nazi propaganda" by selling the books of antisemite Julius Streicher.
It also criticized Amazon's new Prime show, "Hunters", saying its portrayal of the Holocaust was "dangerous foolishness and caricature."
David Weil, creator and executive producer of Hunters, told BI that the key scene being criticized was "a fictionalized event" included "to powerfully counteract the revisionist narrative that whitewashes Nazi perpetration."
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Amazon is under fire for selling Nazi propaganda books and for the portrayal of the Holocaust in its new Prime show, "Hunters."
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