Plot

Former German SS Captain Gunther Lutze returns to Dachau concentration camp and begins reminiscing about the power he enjoyed there during "the good old days", until he finds himself on trial by the ghosts of those who died at his hands.

Gunther Lutze, a former captain in Hitler's SS, decides to return to the area that contains the remnants of Dachau concentration camp. As he revels in the memories of the days when he had tortured prisoners, prisoner Alfred Becker appears before his eyes. What he does not realize is Becker is a ghostly apparition, and plans to put Lutze on trial for crimes against humanity for the torture and killing of the prisoners that were held in the camp. It is one trial Lutze may regret.—Pat McCurry

Former SS Capt. Gunther Lutze returns to the Dachau concentration camp where he served during World War II. After walking around the camp for a short time he is confronted by Alfred Becker a former prisoner, who tells him he is now the prisoner. The ghosts from Lutze's past - and there are many - tell him that he must now pay for the crimes he committed. His punishment is to be driven mad.—garykmcd

A man calling himself Mr Schmidt, has arrived in a small Bavarian Village near Munich. After checking into a hotel, he decides to head to the remains of the Dachau concentration camp nearby.

Upon strolling through the remains of the camp, Mr Schmidt meets a thin man in a striped shirt and pants, who calls himself Alfred Becker. Becker refers to Schmidt by his true name of Captain Gunther Lutze. Lutze tries to deny this name, but Becker tells him that it is his true name.

Lutze tries to ignore Becker, but no matter where he goes, Becker appears. It is shortly afterward that Lutze realizes that he had killed Becker. The ghost of the former inmate of the camp is then joined by others who were killed under the Captain's orders, to put him on trial and provide sentence for his crimes. Lutze attempts to escape, but finds the gates to the camp locked.

Finally, Becker reappears to tell Lutze that he has been found guilty of his war crimes. Through unseen forces, Lutze 'feels' the pain that the tormented felt. As he collapses to the ground, Becker explains to him, that "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 judgment will come from God."

Lutze is later found, and taken to a mental hospital. As the medical personnel prepare to leave, the Doctor who examined Lutze questions why a place like Dachau still stands.

Rod Serling in voice-over answers that question to the viewers in his closing monologue: "There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and to remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth."