I looked it up after finishing the episode, just to be sure, but his biography quickly confirms what is made abundantly clear during "Deaths-Head Revisited". Rod Serling, creator of the phenomenal "Twilight Zone" series and author of this episode in particular, is Jewish. He was born in a Jewish family in New York and voluntarily enlisted for military service during World War II. Rod Serling HATES Nazis. He hates them passionately and with every bone in his body.
"Death-Heads Revisited" is a truly powerful episode. And, given its thematic and message, it's perhaps even the most meaningful and important "Twilight Zone" episode of the whole series. Fifteen years after the end of WWII, and having cowardly fled to South America instead of facing justice, SS-Captain Gunther Lutze can't resist returning to Dachau; - the concentration camp where he sardonically enjoyed torturing and murdering thousands of Jewish prisoners. But suddenly the tables are turned, and the sadist finds himself on trial when former prisoner Alfred Becker appears in front of him.
The plot of this episode honestly isn't very original, nor even that special, but the personal involvement, and the moral at the end, turns it into one of the best. "Why does the camp of Dachau still exist?" Serling righteously states in his narrative conclusion that horrible historic places like these MUST remain intact, if only to remind future generations about the horror mistakes of mankind's past. Having recently visited the concentration camp site of Auschwitz, I can only agree.
"Death-Heads Revisited" is a truly powerful episode. And, given its thematic and message, it's perhaps even the most meaningful and important "Twilight Zone" episode of the whole series. Fifteen years after the end of WWII, and having cowardly fled to South America instead of facing justice, SS-Captain Gunther Lutze can't resist returning to Dachau; - the concentration camp where he sardonically enjoyed torturing and murdering thousands of Jewish prisoners. But suddenly the tables are turned, and the sadist finds himself on trial when former prisoner Alfred Becker appears in front of him.
The plot of this episode honestly isn't very original, nor even that special, but the personal involvement, and the moral at the end, turns it into one of the best. "Why does the camp of Dachau still exist?" Serling righteously states in his narrative conclusion that horrible historic places like these MUST remain intact, if only to remind future generations about the horror mistakes of mankind's past. Having recently visited the concentration camp site of Auschwitz, I can only agree.