Ottoman's Nazi roots run deep. His grandfather was a devoted Nazi and a Colonel in either the Wehrmacht or perhaps even the SS who on seeing the Third Reich was doomed, died towards the end of the war in an attempt to lay down the groundwork for a fourth Reich. It has been stated by creator Ben Dunn that the Ottoman family is not necessarily German and that is seen with Frederick Ottoman's father—and presumably the Colonel's son—Selim Ottoman was a subject of the German allied Ottoman Empire, hence the family name, and his mother was Anna Lumsden a German woman. Both died in the Dresden bombing. Ottoman later served fanatically as a twelve-year-old child soldier in the Hitler Youth in the last days of the war. He met Hitler and fought the Red Army in the Battle of Berlin where he lost his right eye. He survived and has since grown up—and still looking some thirty years old or less to once again try to enslave the Earth for the Master Race.