S3.E9

Deaths-Head Revisited

Episode aired Nov 10, 1961
12
25m

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Oscar Beregi Jr. and Joseph Schildkraut in The Twilight Zone (1959)

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Former German SS Captain Gunther Lutze returns to Dachau concentration camp and begins reminiscing about the power he enjoyed there during "the good old days", until he finds himself on tria... Read allFormer German SS Captain Gunther Lutze returns to Dachau concentration camp and begins reminiscing about the power he enjoyed there during "the good old days", until he finds himself on trial by the ghosts of those who died at his hands.Former German SS Captain Gunther Lutze returns to Dachau concentration camp and begins reminiscing about the power he enjoyed there during "the good old days", until he finds himself on trial by the ghosts of those who died at his hands.

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Joseph Schildkraut

Alfred Becker

Oscar Beregi Jr.

SS Capt. Gunther Lutze
(as Oscar Beregi)

Karen Verne

Innkeeper

Robert Boon

Taxi Driver

Ben Wright

Doctor

Gene Coogan

Victim
(uncredited)

Chuck Fox

Victim
(uncredited)

Jimmie Horan

Victim
(uncredited)

David O. McCall

Victim
(uncredited)

Rod Serling

Narrator
(uncredited)
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Martin Strader

Victim
(uncredited)

Arthur Tovey

Victim
(uncredited)

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8/10

Ahead of Its Time

If there's a criticism of this episode, it's that it doesn't cover much new ground. It allows us to see a horrible man put to the test for his crimes. The acting is quite excellent, especially the prisoner who confronts the evil former SS Man. Given a bit of revision, the script could have actually put him on trial, expanded the issue, allowed him to speak more. There is nothing here that shouldn't be said. There is nothing here that is not despicable. Yet, it takes the ball so out of the evil man's court, that there is no suspense to speak of. Still, it is cleansing at times because this man doesn't represent a thousandth of pain his kind inflicted.

Hitchcoc
Nov 23, 2008
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Trivia
Oscar Beregi Jr. and Joseph Schildkraut both hailed from distinguished Yiddish stage families and had lost most of their European relatives in the Holocaust.

Goofs
When Captain Lutze enters the first abandoned building inside Dachau, a portrait of Adolf Hitler still hangs on the wall after 17 years. Following World War II, everything Nazi related, especially likenesses of Hitler, were destroyed or hidden. Even today, decades later, Hitler images in Germany on display at historical sites and museums are oftentimes defaced by visitors.

Quotes
[closing narration]
Narrator: There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buckenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worse of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in The Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth.