The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial criticized Amazon Sunday for creating fictionalized scenes of violence in its new Prime series "Hunters."
The series, executive produced by Jordan Peele and released on Friday, stars Al Pacino as the head of a band of Nazi hunters in 1970s New York who discover that hundreds of escaped Nazis are living in the U.S.
The series depicts fictional atrocities taking place in Nazi death camps, including a game of human chess in which people are killed when a piece is taken off the board.
The organization, which represents the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp, tweeted Sunday: "Inventing a fake game of human chess ... is not only dangerous foolishness and caricature, it also welcomes future deniers. We honor the victims by preserving factual accuracy."
