The story is about a former SS officer revisiting the Dachau concentration camp a decade and a half after World War II.
The title is a play on the Evelyn Waugh novel Brideshead Revisited, and the SS "Death's Head" units who administered the camps.
He was a black-uniformed strutting animal whose function in life was to give pain, and like his colleagues of the time, he shared the one affliction most common amongst that breed known as Nazis... he walked the Earth without a heart.
And now former SS Captain Lutze will revisit his old haunts, satisfied perhaps that all that is awaiting him in the ruins on the hill is an element of nostalgia.
The receptionist seems to recognize him, but he deflects suspicion by claiming to have served in the panzer division on the Eastern Front during World War II.
Lutze argues that he hoped that with the passage of enough time, the world would have moved on and people would be willing to forget his "little mistakes of the past."
Becker and a dozen other ghostly inmates put Lutze on trial for his actions, which include ordering the deaths of over 1,700 innocent people without trial or due process, maiming and torturing thousands of human beings without provocation, the criminal experimentation on women and children, the murder of at least 14 people by his own hand, and calling and signing into effect orders for the gassing and cremating of one million human beings.
As punishment, Lutze is made to undergo the same horrors he imposed on the inmates in the form of tactile illusions, including being shot by machine guns at the gate, hanging by the gallows and torture at the detention building.
Lutze is found by authorities, sedated by a doctor, and taken to a mental institution, since he continues to experience and react to his illusory sufferings.
Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth.Gordon F. Sander, excerpt from Serling: The Rise and Twilight of Television's Last Angry Man: The introduction to the instrumental song "Intro to Reality" from the 1990 album Persistence of Time by the heavy metal band Anthrax featured dialogue spoken by the character Alfred Becker quoting, "We did as we were told."