THE Devil Next Door is set to be this year’s darkest true crime docu-series.
The Netflix original may be one of history’s most unique whodunit cases.
When is the Devil Next Door released?
All five episodes of The Devil Next Door will drop exclusively on Netflix, on November 4, 2019.
The limited series is directed by Daniel Sivan and Yossi Bloch, who are also producing the show, along with executive producers Dan Braun and Josh Braun.
Director and editor, Daniel Sivan is known for other documentary films and shows like The Oslo Diaries (2018) and Censored Voices (2015).
What is the Devil Next Door?
The show centres on John Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker living in Ohio who at first glance seems utterly unremarkable.
However, it transpires the Ukrainian’s past is anything but ordinary as his past as an SS guard is exposed.
The show tracks how Demjanjuk finds himself accused of being ‘Ivan the Terrible’, a Nazi known for his brutality who worked at the Treblinka concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Ivan operated the tank engines which provided the poisonous gas responsible for the deaths of thousands at the fake public showers that were used as death chambers.
What’s more, Ivan was known for his own unique brand of brutality, mutilating his victims by chopping off their ears, whipping them and stabbing them with a sword.
Demjanjuk finds himself extradited to Israel to stand trial for these crimes, but the central question the documentary tackles is whether he is indeed the infamous Ivan.
Though he professes his innocence, the case snowballs in the press and there is no shortage of accusers.
What happened to John Demjanjuk?
Ultimately, Demjanjuk was found guilty of helping to murder 28,060 Jews during the Second World War.In 2011 he was sentenced to five years in prison at the age of 91, but died just a year into his incarceration.
It’s believed he served for six months in the Sobibor extermination camp in 1943.
However, he was never identified as Ivan the Terrible and was released on appeal after the 1988 conviction was found to be false.
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