A seared conscience and punishment for evil. Clip from the Twilight Zone

[@jeddyhi]

"Not only in the Twilight Zone, but wherever men walk God's Earth." Never heard Rod so passionate in his closing statement.

[@patriot9455]

Having been a Paratrooper in WW2, he saw things he would take to his grave. This is part of it and it is a haunting, evil reminder of how far a man, or a government can go down to the depths of depravity. The Nazis who wore executed were just following orders. If that does not chill you to the core of your being, you may be one of those willing to do that at some point.

[@alvexok5523]

@patriot9455 It was disturbing the way Capt. Lutz was in this episode because he displayed exactly what the real nazis were like. The way at one point in the episode he walked towards one of the buildings of the camp with a smile saying "we had some good times in here" followed by his memory spot of him torturing a man almost dead by acknowledging that he's had no water in 5 days and still refusing him any more, this was a disturbing part of the episode since this is how the real nazis were and is exactly the types of things they did in there

[@JM-wb8rq]

I think this is his best closing statement in the series. He's basically talking to the audience and asking us to learn from the mistakes of the past.

[@janeyrevanescence12]

If I remember the story correctly, Serling got the idea for this episode from the recent capture of Adolf Eichmann, one of the major players in the Holocaust. He escaped to Argentina during the final days of WWII and lived there quietly. However, Mossad (Israel’s answer to the CIA) tracked him down and kidnapped him, bringing him back to Israel for trial and was subsequently executed. The nature of Eichmann’s capture caused a big uproar around the world, with several saying that Argentina’s sovereignty had been violated. Serling (who was raised Jewish and originally enlisted to fight the Nazis but was sent to the Pacific Theater instead) was so angered by Israel getting attacked for bringing a notorious criminal to justice that he wrote “Death’s Head Revisited” as a response.

[@CiardisInferno99]

Rod was a WW2 veteran. He knew just how bad humanity could get.

[@stempo1]

"He was a black uniformed strutting animal" Jeez this show was on another level even today.

[@Darc-uhTealGEEMUrr0vDamezsz026]

o-o i felt like tht baek in 0Id skool xvsf w/ Cyclops in 6I@ç & rouge 😊😊

[@unclenogbad1509]

This show had no fear. It could make you think, feel, and if necessary, punch you right in the gut. Rod Serling was a quiet genius, and I wish we still had programme-makers like him today.

[@unclenogbad1509]

@eboston7591 Oh fuck me, a typo. Never seen one of those before.

[@melissacooper8724]

This episode really made me think!

[@unclenogbad1509]

@@melissacooper8724 Don't want to sound like an old fogey, but we need more thought-provoking TV, and less spoon-feeding.

[@cindirose3390]

Serling was such a great thinker. Have you watched the movie Serling wrote called "Patterns"? Serling turns the screw so slowly in that movie, really exploring executive power.

[@carycimino7699]

And Jewish

[@FerretJohn]

For those who never saw the episode and just came upon this clip, the retribution Captain Lutze is experiencing is all the pain and torture he inflicted on others while he was at that camp, every shattered bone, every whip crack, every bullet fired, every person hanged, every person set aflame, every rape and beating. He will feel that agony every day for the remainder of his life, until he stands before his final judgment... in the Twilight Zone

[@missmiss975]

Perfecr

[@allenjones3130]

One of the most powerful and thought-provoking episodes of Rod Serling's masterwork.

[@claudioproteo3039]

There are stories about this being what actually happens to guilty spirits after they die, until they repent and atone. Then they are prepared for reincarnation but many of them will be sorrowful to make the lesson well written in their minds.

[@alvexok5523]

@claudioproteo3039 Yeah. What were people like this captain Lutz thinking when inflicted so much pain, agony, and suffering upon so many people at the time he was inflicting it? What was most disturbing about his character was, before he was reprimanded by the ghost of Becker, the sheer enjoyment he was showing upon the cruel suffering he gave. I've seen this whole episode and he walked towards one of the buildings with a smile saying "we had some good times in here" right before his memory spot of him torturing a man almost dead who hadn't drank water in 5 days and still refusing him water. The most disturbing thing of that is how the real nazis of those concentration camp were exactly like this. Capt. Lutz got exactly what he deserved the second half of this episode

[@kevinmadden1645]

Knowing Sterling, he substituted Nazis for Republicans.

[@rickyray2794]

When Becker hears "little mistakes of the past" it was over.

[@alvexok5523]

That's another awful thing about Capt. Lutz, him calling the horrible things he and his fellow nazis did little mistakes, and asking for them to be forgiven. Becker's response was completely understandable when replying "you may as well ask for the earth to stop revolving around the sun, don't ask what cannot be done, since you've pushed them way past the point of forgiveness"

[@melissacooper8724]

Captain Lutze was beyond the point of redemption anyway. He had no remorse for anything he and his friends had done to the victims of the camp. In fact, if he had his way, he would've gone on doing those deplorable things to those people!

[@theoneandonly6431]

I liked the way Lutze went to hug Becker, then Becker stiffened and gave him a "Are you out of your mind?" look.

[@sauluribe7082]

What a contemptible thing to say.

[@elmermedina1713]

​@theoneandonly6431 that's a look that says I've been through hell once before, don't you dare lay a hand on me, u unholy demon

[@TheBelegur]

The moment humanity forgets it will start all over again.

[@DavidSmith-zh4km]

It is close to starting all over again. May God help us all.

[@bullock4211]

@BibleTalk101 Oh there's atrocities similar going on right now in other third world countries. They're not on the level of the actual holocaust but they're being committed. It's the type of news you don't read or watch while we drink our morning coffee before we leave for work.

[@deevee4994]

We fund Ukrainian Neo-Nazi's now.

[@TheBelegur]

@@deevee4994 The American people have no national interest in he Russia Ukrainian war. Politicians are laundering tax payer money through the Ukraine.

[@deevee4994]

@@TheBelegur Yes, you're absolutely right, but would you ever thought that Americans would be so passive and complacent, that POLITICIANS could boldly lie , support Neo Nazis, money laundry schemes, all out in the open, without any fear of congressional oversight or public outrage? When elected officials aren't afraid of their dirt coming to light they only become more degenerate. The Nazis are the historical example of political power at its most depraved level.

[@amberallen2994]

This is my most favorite episode of The Twilight Zone. It still holds true even today. Evil should always be avenged. 🥰

[@protectorofillinois3]

One of my favorite episodes from The Twilight Zone. Oscar Bergei, Jr. always played dark characters - he played them so good.

[@miroslavtomic7038]

Despite this being a cult American show, virtually none of the actors appearing in this episode, at least named characters and credited actors, are American. Oscar Beregi, who played Mr. Schmidt/Lutze, was born to a Jewish family in Austro-Hungary, later emigrating to America, where he made quite a name for himself on numerous TV shows, including his three appearances on Twilight Zone - this episode, The Rip Van Vinkle Caper and Mute. Despite himself being a Jew, he was well known for often playing Nazi officers throughout his career, including camp commanders and guards. Ironically, he lost alot of family members during the Holocaust. Becker was played by Joseph Schieldkraut, famous Austrian actor who even won Academy Award for Best Supporting Role for his role in The Life of Emile Zola. Like Beregi, he also made another appearance on Twilight Zone in the episode Trade-Ins. Like Beregui, his family also suffered alot of losses during Holocaust. Kaaren Verne, who plays the hotel receptionist at the start of the episode, made quite a career and name for herself in Germany before emigrating to America in 1938. She eventually married another legendary actor who escaped Austria to escape from the Nazis, Peter Lorre. Ben Wright, who played Doctor in this episode, was a renowned British character actor, well known for his ability to switch between various accents with ease. He was childhood friend of Ida Lupino, who appeared on Twilight Zone in Sixteen-Millmeter Shrine. Due to this unique ability to change accents with ease, he was known for voicing many characters in Disney cartoons.

[@garfieldsmith332]

The closing narration of this episode is the best of all of the episodes. The episode is one of the best in the entire series.

[@deandownsouth]

It never stopped. It was going on when Rod shot this episode. It's still going on. Whether it's Soviet's gulag, Nazi concentration camps, Mao's genocide, Pol Pot's killing field, Serbia/Croatia genocide, North Korea's mass genocides.... it's never stopped. Yet we focus so much on Hitler and he was an amateur compared to the communist genocides.

[@elliegonzales8212]

Trump's cages at the border, American police brutality killing black people over and over for the slightest offense, or even with no offense committed. Yes it never ends.

[@ByddinRhyddidCymru]

Muh 100 gorrilon cumunist deaths from no iphone in vuvuzela

[@heidim7732]

It should not give anyone comfort to compare one atrocity to another and claim, "This was the worst, no matter what others say." We remember Hitler because so many other countries were complicit. An entire shipload of Jews escaped Nazi-controlled Europe, escaped the Holocaust... and were refused entry to country after country. They were turned away from Cuba, from the USA, from Canada. Because their paperwork was not in order. Because Cuba had revoked their legitimate entry visas. Because Canada's prime minister did not want more shiploads to follow. Unlike those other regimes, we were directly complicit in the Holocaust. Until the USA was attacked by Axis power Japan, many Americans were quite sympathetic to the Nazi ideology. Our sympathies must not be used as an excuse to diminish the horrors that we allowed. Never forget the M.S. St. Louis, 1939. Our hands are not clean.

[@johnspence9718]

Too true, and let's not forget all of the tribal genocides inflicted on people living in Africa and Southern Asia. These are quickly forgotten in my part of the world since they neither affect the people living here, nor backup the current social agenda here. It's much easier, and less painful to take the focus off one's self by blaming a different religion, race, political ideology, or any group really for the cause of current strife. It seems the most horrific crimes in both number & severity are carried out by one's "next door neighbor" if you look at things honestly & clearly.

[@richardmundt7854]

The only reason the left loves to focus on Hitler is because he was a white Nationalist who was a rabid anti-communist. The left isn't concerned with the other POC dictators you mentioned or the amount of killings. Because it doesn't fit their white supremacist narrative. They care more about the identity politics of who actually did the killing. Those two factors alone make his genocide the worst by far to the liberal white hating communist. The proof is evident today with America's leftist democrats turning a blind eye to the ongoing genocide in communist China.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Such a POWERFUL episode.

[@sstaners1234]

“Remember us, because no one wants to go into oblivion without being remembered.” Auschwitz survivor

[@miss-astronomikal-mcmxcvii]

I remember hearing that quote in a Holocaust news clip from Australia from 2008. Journeyman Pictures put that clip on their channel. It’s called “The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Nazi,” and the survivor you are talking about is Regina Spiegel.

[@stephen5804]

LITTLE MISTAKES? The TRUTH WILL NEVER DIE.

[@stephen5804]

@BibleTalk101 WOW, covert mentally corrosive. I love anyway.

[@rkbkirin5975]

Amazing how Rod Serling's words are even more relevant today as they were decades ago.

[@timmayer7248]

I feel like we are inching back towards something like this in the future.

[@joso7228]

try North Korea or China or Russia or Haiti and parts of Africa

[@stephencraig7130]

This episode scared the hell out of me back when it aired. I'll always remember it. What a brain Mr. Selling had. I really respect him.

[@allenjones3130]

Still another powerful episode of one of TV's classic drama series.

[@peaveawwii1]

thanks for posting this. Unfortunately, there are too many people who suffer from this

[@semoffat]

So true!

[@Supahdave1000]

There are entire political parties that desire nothing more than to return to this.

[@brientaylorcohen]

Let's hope they don't reclaim power "by force"

[@edwardsullivan8041]

Anti-Semitism is alive and well in America right now...

[@jp9403]

So called "antifascists" are actually just regular fascists these days.

[@robinj.9329]

A period in History that must NEVER be repeated! So terrible! Beyond words.

[@mgmartin51]

Rod Serling died too young.

[@dennisznaniecke490]

Agreed

[@frankt285]

True...

[@kathleenking47]

Coffin nails🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬😢 Took Rod out Doctor played nazi on Sound of music

[@MrTomengle]

have driven past Dachau many times and every time my skin crawled......the suffering that happened there was so immense that it must stand as a reminder to never let this happen again.

[@alvexok5523]

Yes. It's sickening and horrible though how it ever even happened once

[@warptek]

I think the underlying message to this episode is always be vigilant.

[@miroslavtomic7038]

It is mentioned in this episode that Lutze was the final commandant of Dachau camp, executing people the day before it was liberated in 1945. In real life, the final commandant of Dachau was Martin Weiss, famous for also being commander of Majdanek camp, before he was transfered to Dachau in 1944. He was also previously commander of Dachau from 1942 until 1943. Unlike Lutze, Weiss did not manage to escape and was tried, convicted and executed for his crimes in 1946. In fact, at the time of this episode, Heinrich Deubel was the only former commandant of Dachau that was still alive. He was commander of Dachau from 1935 until 1936. Unlike Weiss and most of other commanders of Dachau, who either commited suicide or were executed, Deubel was never tried nor convicted for his crimes and lived as a free man in Germany until his death in 1962.

[@alvexok5523]

Yeah, it's horrible that any of them got away with what they did. And as mentioned in the episode, some of the nazis did escape to South America where they escaped punishment

[@melissacooper8724]

I remember when I was a sophomore in high school, my teacher showed us a documentary on the Holocaust. What will forever stay in my memory is the footage of the bodies of the concentration camp victims!

[@soheil527]

most of them were footage from soviet concentrations camps

[@janeyrevanescence12]

My teacher put pictures of the Holocaust on the blackboard when we were studying it at school. Two in particular stood out to me. One was of an elderly woman with two small children at a concentration camp. They had just gotten off the train. The other was of a mother holding her baby up to her head as a Nazi soldier was aiming a rifle up to her head. My teacher saw me looking at the second picture one day and I asked why she was holding her baby up to her head. His response still haunts me: “They wanted to save ammunition. So they had mothers hold their children up to their heads so one bullet could do the work of two.” I still think of those pictures all of these years later.

[@elizabethcorven3599]

As long as we take occasional trauma, horror and pain as part of living on this earth, then yes, these horrors, pains and traumas WILL not only continue (as they ARE doing now, today) but they are intensifying to a horrific terror we have not yet imagined or dreamed of.

[@GDSaved]

I agree 💯 percent with what you said, on these horrifying events…very very 👺

[@ShortyTW867]

The world is forgetting. The generations that lived through it are dying off now, and the new generations think they know, but they don't...

[@GenGamesUniverse]

I think this one can be connected to "The Obsolete Man" with Burgess Meredith, and the intro to it where Rod Serling says - "You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace. This is Mr. Romney Wordsworth, in his last forty-eight hours on Earth. He's a citizen of the State but will soon have to be eliminated, because he's built out of flesh and because he has a mind."

[@etsequentia6765]

It might be completely redundant to note this, but this quote is eerily descriptive of the events and processes of this era and happening right now.

[@RandomYT05_01]

@@etsequentia6765 perhaps that particular episode of the twilight zone was more prophetic than we realized. If serling were alive today, he would have probably said "which episode of the twilight are we in?"

[@GenGamesUniverse]

@@etsequentia6765 pretty much what the rich and powerful have become under Donald Trump. Now the irony of it is, like the end of the obsolete man, Trump himself, HAS become obsolete in the republican party

[@trevormillar1576]

The plot of this episode was ripped wholesale from 1984.

[@davidscott2962]

the obsolete man , great episode for sure

[@donaldcronin4590]

One of the best episodes!!!

[@danamiller4897]

Best twilight zone episode

[@marshalljimduncan]

Top 10 perhaps, Best? No...

[@danamiller4897]

@@marshalljimduncan what’s your favorite?

[@marshalljimduncan]

@@danamiller4897 Judgement Night, The Hunt, A Stop at Willoughby, Walking Distance and I shot an arrow into the air, just to name a few. Of the hour-long variety Miniature and the wax museum one are really good too.

[@marshalljimduncan]

Also add The Howling Man to the list...

[@issacmatthews934]

This was a great profound episode

[@bradfordrusso7480]

YES. It certainly IS possible to destroy your own conscience. Scripture tells us so. It uses the words "Seared" and "Defiled". Where that word Defiled means more than just "soiled" with dirt. It includes rotted and poisoned -- with germs and sins. Consider the classic story "The Picture of Dorian Gray". A young man poses for a painting. Over the years, he never seems to age. But the portrait does. He "experiments" with every conceivable vice and sin. Just for the sake of feeling the experience. Even deliberate cruelty. With each such act, his image on the painting grows progressively more hideous and grotesque. Like a person eaten away by leprosy. This destruction of the conscience occurs by repetition of acts of evil. They accumulate. Until a HABIT is formed. A new mind-set or thought pattern. Formed the Same way All Habits are formed. By frequent Repetition. An ancient Chinese proverb says: "Sow a Thought, reap an Act. Sow an Act, reap a Habit. Sow a Habit, reap a Character. Sow a Character, reap a Destiny."

[@bradfordrusso7480]

@paul The Gnostic These two words, Fate and Destiny are commonly used (in English) as largely synonymous. They don't really divert until you examine them in light of ancient concepts. Such as Greek Mythology. EX: The 3 Fates. Who pre-determine the life of each mortal. Like a cord, or string. Including its length (time), and its twisted convolutions (things that happen to you). The implication is that Fate is under External Control. Beyond your control. Destiny is also the length and incidents of your life. BUT, the big difference is CONTROL. Destiny is that portion of life which IS under your control. You decide, exert influence, or change. In today's enlightened thinking (where Science is understood and taught), Fate carries an obsolete Occult connotation. We KNOW, by man's study of Science, History, Psychology, that Fate CAN be controlled. Only the savagely ignorant and superstitious (Amish, Mennonite, and Born-Again Bible literalists) surrender their Destiny to Fate. Napoleon Hill is famed author of "Think and Grow Rich". He speaks of "take possession of your own mind, and direct it to ends of your own choosing". But, he also discovered, by interviewing 46,000 people, that only 2% will ever do this. To Choose a "destination", which he calls "Definite Major Purpose". He characterizes the other 98% as "Drifters". Implying they are tossed about by external forces. As a piece of drift wood rides the waves, or a dry leaf is blown by the wind. "If you do Not set your own goals, you are condemned to forever work to achieve the goals of others." -- Brian Tracy (Think in terms of eternal punishment of wicked kings Tantalus and Sysiphus in Hades of Greek mythology.) Yes, you are right that MOST people Never take control. They don't know self-control is possible, nor how to do it. (Because perverted school and church deliberately rob them of this knowledge.) Their "destination" is in the hands of others (such as employers, society, religion). So, it becomes more like "Fate". The Chinese proverb is carefully worded to imply and teach us that we ARE capable of control. And WE ARE ultimately "the master of our fate, the captain of our soul". (NOT Jesus.) As expressed in the theme of the old B&W film "Kings Row". (Where Ronald Reagan loses his legs.) Moreover, the proverb tells us exactly HOW to seize and regain that control. HOW to wrest it from usurpers, and random happenstance. The HOW starts with Deliberate, conscious Repetition of Deliberately Chosen thoughts. They slowly, steadily, inexorably accumulate, layer upon layer. Ultimately deciding your Path and "Destination" in life.

[@bradfordrusso7480]

@paul The Gnostic Sorry, It's NOT "clear". Sounds more like the insane ramblings of occult B.S. (religious fanaticism). None of which is demonstrable or proven. Conversely, Science can be "tested" by anyone. At any time. Anywhere. By repeatable experimentation. You can NOT prove a single one of your claims, outside of quoting scripture. Which text is so weak an argument, it is Not even Admissible as evidence, in our courts of law (or the court of science).

[@scentlessapprentice88]

Too often, man becomes clever instead of wise, inventive instead of thoughtful, and sometimes, if not careful, can create himself right out of existence.

[@barrykidd1977]

The guy playing the Jew played the dad of the farm family in The Day After.

[@harryc1971]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schildkraut

[@j.randle3803]

The great Joseph Schildkraut.

[@international360]

Most people would rather watch a football game then learn the hard truth of man's follies....

[@miked6426]

This was a great episode Great writing

[@jeffersonrundell7540]

A seared conscience and a reprobate mind, at times, are one in the same. It's part of God's judgment upon those who are thankful and do not even want to retain God in their knowledge.

[@lindaeasley5606]

This had to be among the top 10 best TZ episodes. So powerful in the message it was trying to get across. The memories of what happened at the concentration camps were still fresh as this episode aired less than 20 years from the end of WW2

[@mikestevanovic5000]

The sins of the fathers are the conscience of the children.

[@frankt285]

Your final judgment will come from GOD...

[@ShpookyMetal]

damn 4:17 made my skin crawl rod serlings words damn goosebumps

[@cindirose3390]

"He walked the earth without a heart." Boom, Baby, that is precise!

[@evenflow5491]

You have to give Rod incredible credit keeping his cool when describing the monster that proudly called himself Nazi.

[@sidneygreen9120]

What on earth made him go back to that hell, i visited Belsen many years ago i was just a boy, but i would never ever go back to one of those places, the birds 🐦 🐦 🐦 really do not sing

[@melissacooper8724]

He was trying to relive what he considered his glory days. I think he wished that the war still went on because his enjoyment was torturing and killing other people.

[@sidneygreen9120]

@@melissacooper8724 i think that you are right

[@drwho-hj1pu]

Great acting by all capt lutze learnt the hard way trying to revisit the past.

[@thomasharrison2974]

I do remember watching this.

[@monitorlizardkid8253]

"Never forget, never repeat" I'm worried that due to "certain people(I won't name names, you know who you are.)" we are in the process of forgetting right now.

[@cslan4]

They are standing because we must never forget what real monsters can do to us we must remember this so that it will not happen again!!!

[@reginamay2767]

one of my favs, because the german he got what he had coming, he just was insane dictator.

[@janeyrevanescence12]

“This is not hatred. This is retribution. This is not revenge. This is Justice. But this is only the beginning, Captain. Only the beginning. Your final judgement will come from God.” Damn. That was some major shade! Lurze definitely deserved a hell of a lot worse though.

[@notmadheardthingsinhell8079]

"but look at the interesting sci Fi/fantasy action." It is beside the point in the Twilight Zone.

[@dewfall56]

The epilogue, so stoically spoken by Mr. Sterling here, reminds that humanity is capable of great good, and horrible evil, when so motivated. We must be reminded every day of how we are all so easily manipulated by people who speak what we want to hear. It is a painful way to live, being reminded that you, YES YOU! are potentially a monster who will torture other living things, if you are properly conditioned and motivated, even if by lies. But it is very necessary to be reminded that you, YES YOU, can be indoctrinated into hatred against anything that MSM wants you to, if you listen without critical thinking. The same describes why the American Civil War monuments in the USA that were torn down by ignorant fools driven only by the emotion of rage from listening to liberal MSM (cnn, msnbc, cbs, abc, nbc, washinton post, nyt, and others). Many of them would be ready and willing to murder others who they were convinced were at the heart of what they have been conditioned to hate. If they had any perspective, any sense, any critical thinking skills, they would know that the monuments were there to serve as reminders of the good AND the bad. Without them, we are left with no recall of the past, and thus doomed to repeat it. MSM is the foulest, most evil, most dividing, most destructive, force on Earth. MSM makes families hate each other. MSM is controlled by evil.

[@stephenrowe8352]

Where is Fox News on your list of MSM outlets? Oh, I forgot, they're the only ones telling the truth. Bwaaahaaahaaa!

[@mikek50683]

Well said, I can only add that this same MSM is the mouthpiece of todays democratic party.

[@nobody6546]

👏🏆👏. On a Street Interviews last Summer in Central Park, a gaggle of 19/20 yr old NYU students BOASTFULLY with PRIDE gave me 1 answer of, “… Oh COURSE WE KNOW what the BERLIN WALL is!!.. It’s that German Bristol down in SoHo.!!.. but bring your own Wine because they don’t have a Liquor License…!” . 🌎 Circling down the 🚽, is all I can say. God Bless. 👴🏽NoBody.

[@TheTrumpReaper]

This easily could happen IRL. Nazi in hiding goes to Dachau for "nostalgic" reasons, he hallucinates the ghosts of victims trying him and experiences their torture, and he loses his mind having already lost his soul. "Your final judgment will come from God."

[@melissacooper8724]

I've heard of Nazi officers committing suicide over it!

[@peterwoodhouse4314]

Camp commandant = one of 12 Angry Men jurors?

[@brendagrabina1989]

No

[@robertpolanco1973]

Personally, I think that I would have liked to see Henry Kissinger being punished for his own evil conduct in U.S. foreign policy during his time as both the national security advisor and secretary of state in the Richard Nixon era of the late 1960's and early 1970's as well, like in Vietnam and Chile. I would even love to see him go insane and screaming in agony for what he did as a form of punishment indefinitely.

[@robertpolanco1973]

@paul The Gnostic I agree with you. Definitely and wholeheartedly.

[@dennisznaniecke490]

Love this episode

[@frankt285]

I saw this when young yet, never knew of such horrific thing's..

[@lucianene7741]

The conscience is the most merciless judge, jury, and executioner one can never escape.

[@frankt285]

They've replied: We only did as we were told.. Following orders.. We did not know.. Please, never forget.. Don't let it happen again....

[@trevormillar1576]

German cops stopped wearing those silly helmets in 1945.

[@NestorCaster]

The moments in human existence and experience when people decide to not be people, but to be Gods in their own right-- and as those self-anointed deities, arrogantly choose whom to allow to live based on what they think is the “true” and “natural” way of life, which by their own bigotry, is based on their own dogmatic beliefs and supreme opinions of themselves--motivated and fueled by their own superstitions, willful ignorance, and hypocritical justifications that were all made, just to clam power, and falsely eliminate their own pathetic, yet ironically, utterly human fears.

[@suspectheroin7267]

After listening to the sampled clip by Anthrax, this episode took me over 2o years to locate. ¡ always thought it was referring to *The Howling Man* episode where they have the devil locked up in a castle. Intro to reality 🎶 *_"We did as we were told We just heard you offer the apology For all the monsters of our times Is that correct?Ha•ha~hahahaha•haha_* Finally locating the episode ¡ can see why it was quite controversial and rarely shown on network TV. + ¡ tried spending all 24 hours watching those marathons on Sc¡-Fi just for this one episode not to be shown.

[@trevormillar1576]

When General Patton's troops liberated the camp, they rounded up all the guards that they could catch and shot them all up against the nearest wall.

[@ACTS1ZION]

REPENT AND BE BAPTIZED EVERY ONE OF YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS AND YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST!!!!!

[@sauluribe7082]

Although they didn't say what people in this episode it was obvious. But there are still alot of such criminals out there in amnesty.

[@tx-sweet-pjg3547]

The mouth of hell waters in anticipation of the arrival of the wicked ,proud unrepentant soul 🐉⚰️🪦🔥⚖️

[@marshalljimduncan]

You had no dreams, captain!

[@marshalljimduncan]

*Dream...3-18-24 8;37am, Uber on the way

[@deantheodosiou2886]

Not for nothing, but having the doctor wonder why Dachau still stands risks derailing the moral of the story. It almost calls for us to sympathize with the likes of Lutze, who got his just desserts for fondly reminiscing about his prior glory days. Good thing Serling's closing set the record straight. But I think the good doctor should have been given that monologue instead of merely showing concern for his newfound patient. He should have wondered something to the effect that Lutze's insanity (as he put it) may have the product of an evil conscience eating its host alive. For how else might anyone explain what becomes of such a weird, if not twisted, trip down memory lane?

[@howarddodge772]

Who played captain lutze

[@cyborgninja5489]

I feel sick. I feel like I'm in hell.

[@paulpetrovich8779]

I think you can get de sensitized to violence, etc..I don’t think you actually lose your conscience, if you have one.

[@briangoldy8784]

Our Family endured the Murder an Torture of these Nazi Goblins.

[@thomasdykstra100]

Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus! Come quickly... Until then, lend us Your heart and mind so that we may endure what remains ahead.

[@cheriremily9360]

Endure! How about just living as decent human beings? How about fighting for social justice? You look to the sky for something that will never happen because it has to come from inside you. We suffer because of this waiting for something while sick people call a despot the second coming. You have the power within you to be a reflection of the world you want, so do you want more pain and suffering because you want the few to have power while you wine about enduring until another 'savior' shows up or will you be a savior to those around you? Even your Jesus said that those of the least among us are him. What is done to the least among us is done to him.

[@thomasdykstra100]

@@cheriremily9360 , --"Endure! How about just living as decent human beings? How about fighting for social justice?" What IS life "as [a] decent human being"? What IS "justice"? Please define and cite your sources, Cheri. --"You look to the sky for something that will never happen... We suffer because of this waiting for something while sick people call a despot the second coming." Yes, I am a Christian. Why your hostility toward Jesus Christ? The Father in Heaven was fully satisfied with Him: “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!” "Despot"? Does a despot identify with others: "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls." Sounds like the "savior" YOU'RE asking for, as well. --"You have the power within you to be a reflection of the world you want..."; "[I]t has to come from inside you." ; "[W]ill you be a savior to those around you? Even your Jesus said that those of the least among us are him. What is done to the least among us is done to him." I readily agree with you that we KNOW by intuition what is objectively and morally 'good', for what wells up from inside concurs with Christ's summation: "'Love the LORD your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.' This is the first and great commandment. A second is like it, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments all the law and the prophets depend." Yet, KNOWING the 'good' alone is not sufficient; the "rub" comes in DOING this 'good'. In fact, every person is obliged to perform what is 'good', to our Maker's satisfaction... But, I must admit I am compromised morally: "I do not understand what I do. For what I WANT to do, I do not do. But what I HATE, I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the commandments are good. In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do. And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. "So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law. But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me. "What a wretched person I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?" From observation, this appears to be the unfortunate rule among people. If you have truly avoided it, Cheri, you are as exceptional before God as Jesus Christ! Otherwise, so much "the power within us." “'What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him? You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor and placed everything under his feet.' "When God subjected all things to him, He left nothing outside of his control. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. "In bringing many to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family." ... "Now since the children have flesh and blood, [Jesus Christ] too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil, and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. "For surely it is not the angels He helps, but the descendants of Abraham. For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people. Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted." ... "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need." Cheri, I had to admit this conflict of purpose in myself--whether to selfishly seek my own interests at the expense of everyone else, or abandon my welfare to the keeping of God and my neighbor. I appeal to you to be truthful before God; He is FOR you and not against you!

[@paulmicelli5819]

You reap what you sow.

[@raydunn2582]

As with many Twilight Zone episodes this one is a lesson in morals. Few, if any, series produced today confront issues or try to teach lessons in favor of populist schlock. With the increasing pace of life, need for instant gratification and lower attention spans, this type of show could never be popular again. More's the pity.

[@lucianene7741]

There was no such rank as Captain (Hauptmann) in the SS. The equivalent was Hauptsturmführer.

[@UberKrispy]

Man's cruelty to his fellow man. Man takes pleasure in inflicting suffering. If there are aliens in the universe, I pity them if they ever meet Man. In fact, I pity Man.

[@massapower]

SERLING was a FREAKN' and all episodes stand the Test of Time and sadly they are being repeated in todays Vile World !😯

[@Pro-Deo]

Out of all of God's creations that He is forever creating, God will have always loved mankind the most after His son Jesus. The Earth is the ONLY place in all God's creations He ever had to send Jesus to in order to save mankind. There will never be a need for Jesus to save others in the vastness of God's creations, because those creations with their free will have always chosen God. How ironic that the one creation God loves the most after Jesus, us, are the same and ONLY creation that ever rejected Him and Jesus. Therefore even though we are all born on one of God's innumerable gardens, yet, as beautiful as this Earth is, we all walk in the valley of death, evil and sin, every moment of every day. Those who love God and do HIS Will, don't walk in fear. Those who love God and do HIS Will, fight the good fight and never hate. And are never afraid to stand up for God and Jesus.Truly God is very patient with mankind. Why hasn't He sent His Son Jesus back to judge the living and the dead? Because He's hoping people will choose His ways and go to Heaven in death. To be a child of God's Family. He's patiently waiting for more people to choose to be His children. But He's extremely broken hearted because indeed most of mankind will suffer in hell forever. It's what most of mankind has chosen. Thus, many are called but few are chosen. If people who choose to worship evil could actually see and know what awaits them in hell? They would still choose evil. That's how much God and Jesus are hated. But God's Heart won't always suffer. One day He will make a new Heaven and a new Earth after the Final Judgement. And God's tears will forever be wiped away and never grieve again for His children who chose to go to hell. Never will He create mankind ever again.

[@colinmerritt7645]

Go proselytize elsewhere. People like you are why others turn to atheism.

[@genegottloeb7281]

Harvard Entry Intake 🚫

[@genegottloeb7281]

At the rate we are going. There will be more

[@cyborgninja5489]

What am I supposed to do then? This clip offers no solution, it rubs salt into the wounds of people that are languishing. Thanks a lot.

[@mactony4]

We will remember what the Nazi did for a long time but other country did thing just as bad, for example the Japanese Unit 731 did inhuman experiment on people like intentionally froze people limbs using different methods to see the effect on the body or vivisection. i've seen pictures of some of the thing they did, i've tried put my emotion aside but it didn't take long, i cried out of anger and sadness, i hope hell exist so that these human monsters suffer.

[@genegottloeb7281]

No less than the Japanese did in the Nanjing Massacre Or the expelling of all Jews by Edward I of England to Spain. We all know how that worked out. Harvard is a joke in the timeframe of History God Bless You Happy New Year to your Family. No Ovens or Box cars this time. Or 1938, hate is always there. At 73, Read your History. 👐

[@ivanalejandrovillagranpadi8986]

😊

[@johnharrison6745]

It's WAY PAST time that Germany STOPPED trying to live-down the Hollow Cost. Germany owes the world NOTHING for it anymore; Germany needs to start LOVING ITSELF again; LONG LIVE SACRED GERMANY!!!

[@jimmyohara2601]

Aghh, Deutch lost 2wo world wars 😐🤐.

[@johnharrison6745]

@@jimmyohara2601 Which nullifies what I said not-at-all. Take your fingers off of the keys, and, put them back to work on the circumcised soy-sausage; know what I mean? 😉

[@annalisavajda252]

You want to see something really scary?

[@jerrycraig6522]

I got the 1st like, a first for me, yaaaa!!!

[@MrChubbyHubby.]

Nice!

[@luisreyes1963]

Every Holocaust denier should experience what Capt. Lütze went through for their evil beliefs.

[@GodisGod777]

Benjamin Netanyahu deserves to answer to the ghost of one of his ancestors who perhaps met a barbaric fate in one of these places. And explain why he is no different from a figure like Lutze.

[@ShantyIrishman]

Wokeness has really gotten out of hand. 😂

[@Number6_]

Bury your dead or you will eventually start living amongst them! The dead already out number the living. How long before their gods entire earth is covered with these buildings. The jews need to learn this lesson and that many captians were themselves jewish.

[@warningsigns4526]

the earth does not revolve around its axis - its stationary

[@Pararealgar]

Lol

[@colinmerritt7645]

Awesome! Trying to troll and sound kewl at the same time. A for effort. F for execution. You just sound like you took too many blows to the head.

[@mikeevans5810]

sorry, Rod, but I disagree with your ending statement.

[@semoffat]

Sorry, Mike, Rod is dead.

[@dragmaXE]

How so? He was a soldier during WW2 (pilot I think) and he saw first hand how horrible the realm of warfare really was, is, and always will be. So tell me…how is he wrong?

[@mikeevans5810]

my father was also a pilot in WW2, he said he was glad to forget the horrors that he saw, and started enjoying life instead, while raising us to do right by and for others in the first place, thereby maintaining a clear conscience, which he took to his grave, rest easy, my man, you were the best.

[@ughmazing8073]

Ah, it's fictional story hour.

[@semoffat]

So then, you are a Holocaust denier?

[@ughmazing8073]

You going to imprison me?

[@erniebuchinski3614]

@@ughmazing8073 You're already imprisoned by your own ignorance, it seems pretty clear.

[@semoffat]

@@kewlbeans9905 Ah, an interesting answer that really compares apples to oranges. While I understand your analogy it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. The United States responded to an attack on its homeland from these countries. The US used limited and targeted weaponry while the Nazi’s intent was to annihilate a whole people group. It was not 6 million alone but 11 million concentration camps and 50million dead in the war. the killing of innocents is always wrong. I would suggest you educate yourself by watching historical films, visit the Holocaust Museum and possibly take a trip to one of the camps that still exists. By the way, one bad behavior doesn’t excuse another.

[@kewlbeans9905]

@@semoffat You need musems, camps and pictures to remind you of injustices. My belief says, "To kill one human unjustly is as if you have killed whole of mankind." What 6 million, 20 million, 1 billion? What unlimited weapons or one gun or one rusty knife? Does not make any difference. I am of the belief CIA was invovled in terrorist attack on US - only if your museums reminded you of the oldest trick on how humans fool humans. Fine, we admit some nutjob attacked US soil but US is democracy. Democracy does not condoe vigilante justice but bring them before court in UN, let them present their views and let the world decide. If you committ the most heinous of crimes, I will never support open ended war because democracy offers you the right to due process and present your views no matter how guilty you are. The US has become the judge, the jury and the executioner. It makes US and UN look guilty and the any cause they stand for is lies. Lastly, Edward Snowded made it abundantly clear how US loves it's own citizens. Spreading of misinformation to stealing my privacy so I stay a slave is worst than what happened to 6 million Jews! At least they knew their enemies and there was no doubt in their relationship! You expect me museums to teach or convince me when in practice US has bleeding heart for poor Jews and others and yet is building walls against it's poor neighbors, i.e, Mexico. In God We Trust, the very same God that commands Love Thy Neighbor. And the only nation to use Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2 nuclear bombs, to kill innocent people of Japan. US has yet to held accountable for that as far as I am concerned. See if you find a museum that reminds you of these things. Respectfully, A Goy

[@jeffw1267]

I always liked this show, but it got over the top and overly preachy, especially in the later seasons. If Serling lived today he would be a limousine liberal like Rob Reiner or Sean Penn. Rod did live the high life, with a large, expensive home and a pool in the backyard by which he used to dictate his scripts. Why not a little less wealth for himself, and more for the needy?

[@semoffat]

Thanks for your comment but I am not sure what your analysis of a man’s life from 60 years ago he has to do with the truth of the holocaust? You seem to judge him by today’s standards and apply today’s buzzwords to Rod Serling’s life. While in actuality, this might be true or not, I don’t know. I was only dealing with his film.

[@colinmerritt7645]

Talking about the Nazi genocide and subtly warning it could happen again is over the top?

[@novusmundi]

@Pastor Scott People of today love judging people of the past by today's standards. Maybe 60 years from now, those people will mock those of today who believe that men can give birth.

[@semoffat]

Thank you.

[@cheriremily9360]

@@colinmerritt7645 no, it's not over the top when we have Nationalist in this country trying to take over. Where were you when children were taken from their parents and thrown into camps in S TX to die during a pandemic. Were you asleep during the Trump Admin? No, you think Nazi genocide cannot happen again when in fact we are fighting fascism right now. It's just not a wolf that has come to your door yet.

[@randymillhouse791]

So, vote for Trump again?

[@semoffat]

If you say so, is that an endorsement?

[@jeorgedavid3239]

You ment Jim crow Joe Biden been around racist Strom Thurmond Biden was buddy ex klanman Robert kkk Byrd of West Virginia

[@randymillhouse791]

@@jeorgedavid3239 Sure, Biden is the racist. And everything Trump has done and said makes him the man of inclusion. Sure, whatever works for you.

[@paulfallon7038]

I will.

[@randymillhouse791]

@@paulfallon7038 Please do. It will be entertainment for me watching the USA implode from retirement in South America. Actually, I won't watch or care about the USA anymore.

[@outerrealm]

You filmed this off a tv with a crappy little camera? Very shabby.

[@followerofjulian1652]

Long live PALESTINE!

[@semoffat]

Problem with that statement is there has NEVER been a state by that name. Silly…