The show traffics in “dangerous foolishness and caricature,” and “welcomes deniers,” the museum tweeted.
, sharing his own personal relationship to Auschwitz—his grandmother survived it—and wrote that he had tried to honor his responsibility to history by explicitlyrecreating real events, since he “did not want to misrepresent a real person or borrow from a specific moment in an actual person’s life.” To avoid that hazard, Weil took steps like giving his characters tattoos with numbers higher than any the Nazis ever actually assigned and using fictionalized atrocities.
That is a good argument for including “representationally truthful” sadism and violence in a fictionalized depiction of the Holocaust, but it’s not at all apparent that the show’s project is counteracting revisionist narratives that whitewash Nazis.
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