A memorial to one of the most infamous Nazi death camps slammed an Amazon TV series this week for depicting a made-up “human chess” game during the Holocaust.

The Auschwitz Memorial said the sadistic scene in the Al Pacino-led Amazon Prime drama “Hunters” belies the real horrors of the massacre of 6 million Jews during World War II.

“Inventing a fake game of human chess for @huntersonprime is not only dangerous foolishness & caricature. It also welcomes future deniers,” the memorial said on Twitter Sunday. “We honor the victims by preserving factual accuracy.”

Set in New York in 1977, “Hunters” follows a band of Nazi hunters who find out hundreds of Nazi officials living in the US are plotting to establish a “Fourth Reich.” The show has raised eyebrows over its fictional depiction of concentration camps such as Auschwitz, where more than 1 million people were killed during the Holocaust.

One scene shows a grisly game of chess in which humans are used as pieces and murdered when they are “taken.” The Auschwitz Memorial tweeted an image from the scene showing bodies scattered on the edge of a checkered grass field.

“Hunters” producer David Weil defended the show’s depiction of the Holocaust in response to the memorial’s critique. The show is “inspired by true events” but never billed itself as a documentary, he said.

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