The story of John Demjanjuk — a Cleveland man accused of being a notorious concentration camp guard — gets the Netflix true-crime treatment in 'The Devil Next Door.' Read the review:
The story of John Demjanjuk, the Cleveland man who was put on trial in the late '80s and charged with being the notorious concentration camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible, is one of layered complications.
I'm not sure there's a version of the Demjanjuk saga that could cover it all completely even in five hours and Netflix'sis, at best, only able to answer some of the questions it poses and only able to tackle the complications adequately. Boasting a solid cast of principals from Demjanjuk's original trial, Yossi Bloch and Daniel Sivan's newly available documentary series is strongest on that facet of the story, before struggling and stumbling to make any big picture arguments.
According to recovered Soviet documents and witness statements, however, Demjanjuk was actually a particularly brutal and sadistic piece of the extermination machine at the Treblinka camp. In Israel, a country still grappling with its treatment of Holocaust survivors, this was the biggest trial of its kind since Adolf Eichmann was brought to justice in 1962.
The filmmakers' approach does not seem to have been one of independent investigation, so this is not an opportunity to dredge up new information or evidence, much less to gain fresh knowledge on the problematic evidence and testimony presented at the time. That keepsMaking a Murderer, but without that show's meta commentary on authorship and obsession, finally its most intriguing element.
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