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| Silver Nemesis |
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 Name: Fourth
Reich, led by De Flores and Adolf Hitler Junior.
Format:
Television show and Book
Time of Origin: Existed
in hiding in separate branches after 1945; The Doctor fought the two groups
in 1988 and 2001.
Appearances: "Silver
Nemesis", "The
Shadow in the Glass"
Doctors:
Sixth
Doctor and Seventh
Doctor
Companions:Ace, The
Brigadier, Claire Aldwych; Elizabeth
Klein independently
encountered De Flores after the events of "Colditz" before she
began to travel with The Doctor.
History: Although
the reign of terror waged by the Nazis against the world on a large scale
ended in 1945 with the death of Hitler, the destruction of the Third Reich,
and Germany’s loss in the war - although The Doctor has at least
twice dealt with attempts to alter history so that the Nazis won the war
("Timewyrm:
Revelation", "Colditz") -, at least two
secret divisions of the Third Reich managed to survive the war in secret
- the evidence suggests that neither side was officially aware of the other
-, going on to pose a significant potential threat to humanity before The
Doctor was able to halt their expansion before they could truly begin.
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| Sylvester McCoy |
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The
first group of Fourth Reich Nazis The Doctor encountered - in chronological
terms from Earth’s perspective - were led by a man called De Flores,
stationed in South America while he trained his men to achieve Adolf Hitler’s
goal of world domination (He was even briefly acquainted with the Seventh
Doctor’s companion/enemy Elizabeth
Klein during this time period,
Klein helping him establish his headquarters while she re-qualified as
a medical doctor). After decades of training and preparation, De Flores
eventually mounted an official campaign in 1988, when he and his men attempted
to recover the Nemesis statue - how he learned of the statue is unknown
-, a statue composed of the powerful and mysterious Validium metal, an
ancient Time Lord weapon that The Doctor had launched into space in 1638
to stop anyone getting their hands on it, but was now due to return to
Earth in a crash-landing ("Silver
Nemesis"), De Flores having
acquired a validium bow that was originally part of the statue that would
allow him some degree of control over the statue.
However,
De Flores’s efforts to acquire the statue after it had crash-landed
back on Earth were hampered not only by the Seventh Doctor and Ace,
but also the mysterious Lady Peinforte - who had created the Nemesis
statue in the first place, possessing the validium arrow that went
with De Flores’s bow, having travelled forward in time to regain
control of its power with the implied aid of The Doctor’s old
foe Fenric ("The
Curse of Fenric") - and the Cybermen (The
exact circumstances under which the Cybermen became aware of Nemesis
were never revealed). Although De Flores attempted to negotiate an
alliance with the Cybermen after Lady Peinforte was discovered to
possess gold-tipped poisoned arrows - thus rendering her and her
servant able to destroy the Cybermen due to their vulnerability to
gold, a weakness that the Nazis would not possess -, the Cybermen
betrayed him after he had tracked down the Nemesis statue, killing
him and leaving his branch of the Fourth Reich decimated.
The
second group, however, was far more dangerous than De Flores’s
division, mainly due to the identity of their leader; the secret
son of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, conceived shortly before his father’s
suicide and his mother subsequently smuggled out of Berlin while
a double was left to burn in her place and give the illusion that
she had died. While Eva’s exact final fate is unknown - she
was clearly dead by 2001, but her precise date of death is a mystery
-, her son, Adolf Hitler Junior - the exact physical double of his
father -, was raised in a secret Nazi base in Antarctica, dedicated
to the memory of his father and vowing to bring the world under the
rule of the Fourth Reich in the future. To this end, Hitler Junior,
unlike his father, was raised to venerate the occult and genuinely
believe in its use (As opposed to Hitler Senior, who, contrary to
popular media portrayals such as in the Hellboy movie and the JSA comic series, had little belief or patience for the occult), regularly
performing rituals around an object that he believed to be a scrying
glass that allowed him to see the future, although in reality it
was an ocular celluprime from a Vvormak ship that had been accidentally
shot down in 1944 - the ship remaining in the village of Turelhampton
while the crew collaborated with the officer in charge of the village
to secretly repair the ship and salvage the celluprime -, the celluprime
allowing the pilot to see the future and navigate around upcoming
obstacles accordingly.
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| Colin Baker |
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Unaware
of the true nature of the ‘scrying glass’, Hitler Junior conducted
several ceremonies to witness the actions necessary to create the future
that he sought, unaware that everything the glass showed him was intended
to prompt him to take the celluprime back to the crashed ship in Turelhampton,
with the rituals accomplishing nothing but turning the celluprime into
a psychic ‘bomb’ as it absorbed all the negative thoughts and
emotions that were channelled during the ‘séances’ Hitler
Junior used to ‘control’ it, the potential explosion growing
ever closer to critical mass. Fortunately, the truth was revealed when
Brian Goldman, a journalist, managed to tape one of the rituals being performed
at the manor house of a reclusive millionaire, recording footage of Hitler
Junior; although he was forced to kill himself when the Nazis attempted
to interrogate him for information about how he found them, he was able
to mail the tape to Claire Aldwych, a reporter who had done a documentary
on Hitler’s death a couple of years ago... and, more significantly,
had recently come to UNIT’s attention after she broke into Turelhampton
to do a documentary on the village.
With
Claire having been introduced to The
Brigadier and the Sixth
Doctor after
UNIT called them in to ask for advice, The Doctor and The Brigadier were
able to deduce the truth of what had happened on the day of Hitler’s
suicide after The Brigadier acquired Hitler and ‘Eva’s’ bodily
fluids from the State Special Trophy Archive in Moscow - along with a partial
transcript of an interview with Hans Baur, Hitler’s personal pilot,
which made reference to a substitution and a double - while The Doctor
travelled back to 1942 and acquired blood samples from Hitler and Eva -
while also making a significantly positive impression on Hitler under his
assumed identity of Major-General Johann Schmidt of the Fifth Medical Corps
-, the subsequent comparison of the samples in the TARDIS allowing The
Doctor, The Brigadier and Claire to deduce that Hitler had died while Eva
had been the one replaced.
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The Shadow in the Glass
(Justin Richards & Stephen Cole) |
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Subsequently
tracking the Nazi base to Antarctica based on Claire’s discoveries
during a previous documentary about the Nazi interest in the continent
before the war, The Doctor and his companions confronted Hitler Junior,
The Doctor arrogantly dismissing Hitler Junior’s philosophy as barren
and antiquated, stating that the reason he had remained in hiding to ‘plan’ for
so long was that he knew there was no place for his ideas in the modern
world while mocking his faith in the ‘scrying glass’. Outraged
at The Doctor’s defiance, Hitler Junior took him and his companions
to observe the next ritual... which showed The Doctor taking Hitler Junior
back in time to meet his father, a prediction that was fulfilled when Hitler
threatened to shoot Claire.
Although
Claire was tragically killed by party secretary Martin Bormann to serve
as the body double for Eva when she was separated from The Doctor and The
Brigadier during their attempted escape, The Doctor’s previous contact
with Hitler meant that Hitler was more inclined to believe the supposedly
loyal Nazi Major General over an apparent madman with his face and name,
the confrontation culminating with Hitler shooting his son in the head
and the body being dumped in the nearby watertower (The presence of a double
of Hitler in that location had been noted by The Brigadier and Claire during
their earlier research, a casual comment made by The Brigadier inspiring
Hitler to use that solution to dispose of the body). Having returned to
the present and the celluprime being returned to the Vvormak ship - The
Doctor convincing them to depart Earth peacefully on the grounds that the
original attack had been an accident and dispel the energy absorbed by
the glass in the upper atmosphere where it could do no harm -, UNIT was
able to use information gathered from the Antarctic base to break up the
rest of the Nazi sleeper cells, ending any official continuation of the
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