Netflix is this week releasing its latest true-crime docuseries, which promises to be darker than any that have come before.

The streaming platform has released a string of excellent documentaries in the true crime genre, all stemming from the unprecedented success of Making a Murderer. Since that show's release in 2015, Netflix has produced some gripping documentaries like Evil Genius, Wild Wild Country and The Keepers to name just a few.

Their shows have touched on everything from murderers, conspiracies, cover-ups in the Catholic Church, cults, and intimate interviews with inmates on death row.

Now, Netflix is tackling the evilest evil of them all — Nazis.

The Devil Next Door tells the story of an alleged Nazi war criminal who was living in Cleveland, Ohio.


Retired Ukranian-American autoworker John Demjanjuk found himself accused of being Ivan the Terrible — one of the most notorious concentration-camp guards of the Holocaust.

Ivan the Terrible operated two tank engines that fed Treblinka's gas chambers. He was known as a cruel torturer of his victims, cutting off their ears as they worked, whipping them, and piercing them with a sword before sending them to their demise.

The question hanging over the series is whether or not he actually was the evil guard of Treblinka. It covers the initial accusation by Holocaust survivors, his 1986 extradition to Israel to stand trial, and the media frenzy that followed.

"When a group of Holocaust survivors identify Demjanjuk's photograph as 'Ivan the Terrible' — a notoriously cruel Nazi death camp guard who tortured and killed nearly one million Jewish prisoners during World War II — Demjanjuk's American dream is shattered and he is extradited to Israel to stand trial for crimes against humanity," the show's description reads.

"Israel is transfixed as a media frenzy erupts around the trial in Jerusalem, the nation plunged into trauma and fascination by 'the trial of the century'.

"As the case uncovers dark corners of memory and the horrors of war, the Demjanjuk case becomes a race against time for the defendant and his alleged victims."