Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party and a chief instigator of World War II . As leader of the Nazi regime , he was the Führer of Germany between 1933 and 1945 . Biography . Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 . ( PROSE : " The Shadow in the Glass " , " Warlords of Utopia " ) In 1903 , after receiving a wealth of information from the future , Grigori Rasputin foresaw , among other things , Hitler ' s rise to power . ( AUDIO : " The Wanderer " ) Hitler joined the Nazi Party in 1919 and became its leader in 1921 . During this time , the Timewyrm , looking for a way to hurt the Seventh Doctor by destroying the planet he loved , chose Hitler as a figurehead for her plan to manipulate human history . However , she did not expect his mind to be so powerful and became trapped in it . Hitler began subconsciously accessing the Timewyrm ' s vast psychic power s and using them to become an even more compelling speaker . Also during this time , the War Lord s discovered Hitler ' s psychic abilities and decided to use him in their second attempt to conquer the universe . They set themselves up as the Black Coven and allied with him , while the War Chief , as Doctor Felix Kriegslieter , used psionic technology to boost Hitler ' s abilities even more . On 9 November 1923 , the Doctor and Ace witnessed Hitler leading the unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch . The Doctor reset Hitler ' s dislocated shoulder and gave words of advice and encouragement to him , later explaining to the shocked Ace that it was necessary to ensure history would run its proper course . Hitler was later arrested and imprisoned , but was released the following year . ( PROSE : " " ) He became Chancellor on 30 January 1933 . ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) In 1936 , King Edward VIII of Great Britain , Sir Oswald Mosley and Joachim von Ribbentrop planned to establish a government sympathetic to Hitler , the players assisting von Ribbentrop and Wallis in " encouraging " Edward to dismiss the government for not allowing him to marry Wallis , but this plan was defeated by the Sixth Doctor , Peri Brown and Winston Churchill . Peri replaced a list that von Ribbentrop had assembled of British citizens friendly to Nazis with a laundry list . ( PROSE : " Players " ) In 1938 , Hitler acquired a validium bow , one of the components of Nemesis . ( TV : " Silver Nemesis " ) In the same year he was almost killed prematurely by the " Teselecta " , only to be accidentally saved by the Eleventh Doctor when his TARDIS was out of control . After thanking the Doctor for saving him , he asked what the TARDIS was . The Doctor ( who clearly resented Hitler ) responded by saying it was a London police box , issuing Hitler with a chilling warning about his future defeat . After shooting at the " Teselecta " , Hitler was punched by Rory Williams and locked in the cupboard . A stray bullet from Hitler ' s gunfire struck Mels and lethally wounded her , forcing Mels to regenerate into her new appearance and identity as River Song . ( TV : " Let ' s Kill Hitler " ) Hitler invaded Austria in 1938 and drove straight to Vienna to obtain the Spear of Destiny from a museum . He took the spear back to Berlin , and from then on believed that he was invincible . ( PROSE : " The Spear of Destiny " ) In September 1939 , during the German invasion of Poland , Hitler was reunited with the Doctor and Ace in Berlin and took him on as an advisor . In this capacity , the Doctor exposed the schemes of the Black Coven and Kreigsleiter , all of whom were killed in a conflict with German soldiers . The Doctor also inadvertently taught Hitler how to control the Timewyrm ' s power . In May 1940 , on the night of the Dunkirk evacuation , the Doctor and Ace visited Hitler for a third and final time . The Doctor banished the Timewyrm from Hitler ' s mind , scattering it throughout time and space . Unstable and disoriented without the entity ' s power , Hitler was convinced to allow the evacuation to proceed . ( PROSE : " " ) A piece of chronosteel was found beneath the Rhineland by the Nazis , believed by Hitler to be Thor ' s Hammer . A squad of Nazi soldiers led by Koenig arrived on the English coast with the Chronosteel , intending to use it as the main component of a device that would block out British radio signals , allowing the German ships to attack without being detected . This plan was foiled by George Woods and the time travelling Clyde Langer , who retrieved the Chronosteel object . ( TV : " Lost in Time " ) In August 1942 , the Sixth Doctor , investigating reports that Hitler might have survived his apparent death with the aid of alien technology , visited him in Berlin , accompanied by Alistair Gordon Lethbridge - Stewart . Introducing himself as Major Johann Schmidt of the Berlin Fifth Medical Corps — the Brigadier introducing himself as Brigadier General Braun when lost for ideas — the Doctor acquired blood samples from Hitler and Eva Braun . From these , he learned that , while Hitler had indeed died as history reported , Eva had survived and been smuggled to safety while pregnant with Hitler ' s child . In August 1944 , while planning a raid on Turelhampton to acquire alien technology , Hitler insisted that Major Schmidt be included as part of the team ( Interestingly enough , this marked the Doctor ' s " first " use of the Johann Schmidt identity , the Doctor using his contacts with Winston Churchill ' s government to plant fake personnel records in Germany so that he could infiltrate the Turelhampton raid ) . On 30 April 1945 , near the end of the war , the Doctor , Lethbridge - Stewart , Claire Aldwych and Hitler ' s son visited Hitler in his bunker . Hitler ' s son had forced the Doctor to take him back in time to meet his father . Aided by the Doctor ' s prior " friendship " with him influencing his decision to believe the Doctor over this stranger with his face and name , Hitler dismissed his son as a madman and shot him . Shortly afterwards , he committed suicide rather than face defeat . ( PROSE : " The Shadow in the Glass " ) After World War II , the name " Adolf " virtually disappeared not only in Germany but all over Earth due to its association with Hitler . This came to be known as " the Adolf Effect " . ( AUDIO : " The Lights of Skaro " ) Hitler was resurrected with the rest of humanity in the City of the Saved . He was imprisoned in the Gaol and given six million consecutive life sentences . ( PROSE : " Warlords of Utopia Prologue " ) Other realities . In an alternative timeline in which Hitler did not lose the power of the Timewyrm , Germany conquered the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe . The Seventh Doctor and Ace , after visiting the occupied London of this timeline in May 1951 , prevented it from coming to pass . ( PROSE : " " ) In a different alternative timeline in which Nazi Germany won World War II and eventually conquered Africa as a result of the Seventh Doctor and Ace accidentally leaving laser technology in Colditz Castle in October 1944 , the Mau Mau Uprising against Nazi rule took place in Kenya in 1953 , with Hitler sending in the " Luftwaffe " immediately . On Hitler ' s orders , they proceeded to carpet - bomb the tribal areas and wipe out most of the native population . Within three years , a virulent plague had broken out in Kenya which killed many German soldiers . In 1957 , Hitler placed Elizabeth Klein in command of a team of medical doctors and scientists who attempted to discover the cause of the plague . However , they were unable to do so . ( AUDIO : " A Thousand Tiny Wings " ) In 1961 , Hitler died at the age of 71 or 72 . Prior to his death , he had stockpiled a large number of alien artefacts , including the TARDIS , but had kept them contained because he had feared the implications of intelligence superior to humans . ( AUDIO : " Klein ' s Story " ) Klein later told the Doctor that Hans de Flores was " always the Führer ' s favourite . " She hoped that he would succeed Hitler as the Führer when the Fourth Reich was established . ( AUDIO : " A Thousand Tiny Wings " ) In one universe , Hitler never became more than an anonymous artist . ( PROSE : " Warlords of Utopia Prologue " ) References . When claimed that he wanted to rule people " for their own good , " the Third Doctor wondered if he had heard Adolf Hitler or Genghis Khan say the same thing . ( TV : " The Dæmons " ) Millington maintained a copy of a Nazi office in the naval base at Maiden ' s Bay , including a portrait of Hitler . The Seventh Doctor considered Hitler to be " a dreadful man . " ( TV : " The Curse of Fenric " ) Winston Churchill once mentioned that that " If Hitler invaded Hell , I would give a favourable reference to the Devil . " After the attack on the Dalek ship put London back under cover of blackout , an officer shook his fist towards the oncoming bombers and said , " Do your worst , Adolf ! " ( TV : " Victory of the Daleks " ) Hitler ' s appointment as German Chancellor was noted as a key event by the Matrix while attempting to keep a clear record of the Web of Time during an outbreak of anti - time . ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) After the Germans took Paris , Hitler wanted his photo taken at the top of the Eiffel Tower . This was impossible , however , as the tower ' s keepers had scuppered the lifts , and so he settled for a press conference in the monument ' s shadow instead . ( PROSE : " History 101 " ) In high school , Mels stated to her teacher that the reason Hitler came to power was because the Doctor did not stop him . This got her sent to the head teacher ' s office . ( TV : " Let ' s Kill Hitler " ) The physical resemblance between Hitler and Charlie Chaplin was once remarked upon by Fey Truscott - Sade who once told Nazi Colonel Kessler that she thought that it was " mad " that " millions of people [ were ] following a disgusting little man with a Charlie Chaplin moustache . " ( COMIC : " Me and My Shadow " ) Barbara Wright once asked the First Doctor what would happen if a time travel ler assassinated Hitler in 1930 . The Doctor answered that this would be impossible , because of the fact that Hitler was " not " assassinated . ( PROSE : " Doctor Who and the Crusaders " ) The Twelfth Doctor told Clara Oswald that he wouldn ' t kill Hitler as it would mean changing the course of human history . ( TV : " Kill the Moon " )