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'''''Deaths-Head Revisited''''' is an episode of the [[television series]] ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''.

|episodetitle=Deaths-Head Revisited

|episodenumber=74

==Details==

|season=3

'''Episode number''': 74

|productioncode=4804

|originalday=November 10

'''Season''':[[The Twilight Zone/List of episodes/Season 3|3]]

|originalyear=1961

'''Writer''': |writer=[[Rod Serling]]

'''Production code''': 4804

'''Director''': |director=[[Don Medford]]

|producer=

'''Original air date''': [[November 10]], [[1961]]

|music=

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'''Writer''': [[Rod Serling]]

'''Director''': [[Don Medford]]

==Cast==

'''*Captain Lutze''': [[Oscar Beregi]]

'''*Becker''': [[Joseph Schildkraut]]

'''Becker''': [[Joseph Schildkraut]]

==Synopsis==

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A former captain in the S.S.[[Schutzstaffel|SS]], 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 [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM'sMGM’s]] Lot 3 to make the set for their [[Dachau concentration camp]]. What emerged was a convincing set in most ways... exceptways—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 (The Twilight Zone)|He'sHe’s Alive]]”.

==Critical Response==

*''Gordon F. Sander, excerpt from '''Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man''''':

:"Serling meted out nightmarish justice of a worse kind in "Deaths“Deaths-Head Revisited"Revisited” (directed by [[Don Medford]]), Serling'sSerling’s statement on the [[Holocaust]], written in reaction to the then-ongoing [[Adolf_Eichmann#Capture_and_Trial|Eichmann trial]], in which a former [[Nazism|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'''''

==References==

*Zicree, Marc Scott: ''The Twilight Zone Companion''. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)

==External link==

* [http://www.tvtometv.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showidthe-237twilight-zone/epiddeaths-head-revisited/episode/12659/summary.html TV Tome.com episode page]

==References==

*Zicree, Marc Scott: ''The Twilight Zone Companion''. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)

==Twilight Zone links==

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