Deaths-Head Revisited
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Deaths-Head Revisited is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.
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Details
Episode number: 74
Season:3
Production code: 4804
Original air date: November 10, 1961
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Don Medford
Cast
Captain Lutze: Oscar Beregi
Becker: Joseph Schildkraut
Synopsis
A former captain in the S.S., Captain Lutze, returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce. He meets Alfred Becker, the ghost of an inmate, who tells him that the other victims have risen up to serve justice. Captain Lutze is forced to undergo the same horrors as the inmates he tortured, and the experience renders him insane.
Trivia
- The Twilight Zone production crew modified a frontier fort that had been erected on MGM's Lot 3 to make the set for their Dachau concentration camp. What emerged was a convincing set in most ways... except that all of the signs are written in English.
Themes
A warning that the threat of racist superstates is still very real should mankind forget the lessons of its past. Similar themes are explored in The Obsolete Man and He's Alive.
Critical Response
- "Serling meted out nightmarish justice of a worse kind in "Deaths-Head Revisited" (directed by Don Medford), Serling's statement on the Holocaust, written in reaction to the then-ongoing Eichmann trial, in which a former Nazi, played by Oscar Beregi, on a nostalgic visit to Dachau, is haunted and ultimately driven insane by the ghosts of inmates he had killed there during the war."
- Gordon F. Sander, excerpt from Serling:The Rise and Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man
External link
- TV Tome episode page (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-237/epid-12659/)
References
- Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)
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