De Flores Hans de Flores was a Neo - Nazi who lived in South America . In November 1988 , he led a group which he hoped would become the Fourth Reich in honour of Adolf Hitler ' s goal . Biography . In 1638 , when a large piece of validium fell to Earth , Lady Peinforte found it and sculpted it into an image of herself holding a bow and arrow , calling it " Nemesis . " The Seventh Doctor found the statue , removed the bow and arrow , and placed it onto the rocket - sled , firing it off into space . De Flores discovered information on the Nemesis and planned to use its destructive power to bring the Fourth Reich into existence . He also had the bow required to reactivate it . Once his second - in - command , Karl , delivered information on where and when the Nemesis would crash back into the Earth , he wasted no time in going to retrieve it . Once arriving to the crash site with a squad of his soldiers , de Flores decided to let the police , who had cordoned off the area , guard the Nemesis until it cooled down from the impact from space and retrieve it . When de Flores and his men decided to retrieve the Nemesis , he found that all the police officers had been killed by a form of gas but paid little attention to this . They instead headed straight to the Nemesis and attempted to extract it from the meteorite in which it was encased . De Flores noticed that the arrow required to reactivate the Nemesis was not there and when the Seventh Doctor and Ace arrived , he demanded they hand the arrow over . The Doctor calmly told de Flores that not only did he not possess the arrow , he also warned him that the police around them where killed by highly advanced extraterrestrials . When de Flores learned that they did not have the arrow , he was prepared to have them shot . However , he was distracted by a spaceship landing , which was revealed to contain Cybermen who had the intention of taking the Nemesis for their own purposes . De Flores ' men engaged in a pitched battle with the Cybermen but were quickly decimated in the one - sided fight . The time - displaced Lady Peinforte , who was also searching for the Nemesis , arrived during the fight and killed a couple of Cybermen with golden arrows . This gave de Flores and Karl enough time to escape the conflict , to regroup and fetch some gold dust . After seeing a Cyberman ship being blown up , de Flores went to investigate and found that the Cybermen had hidden the Nemesis in Lady Peinforte ' s tomb . By this time , however , Lady Peinforte had barricaded herself in and was holding back the Cybermen with gold arrows . De Flores informed the Cybermen that because he and Karl did not share the Cybermen ' s vulnerability to gold they were willing to fetch the Nemesis for them in exchange for half of the planet ; de Flores intended to betray the Cybermen instead . De Flores confronted Lady Peinforte in the tomb with her servant Richard Maynarde . Richard threw the arrow needed for its activation at the Nemesis , hoping create a distraction to let Peinforte and him escape . De Flores let them both go and the Cybermen entered the tomb soon after . He was prepared to use the Nemesis to destroy them but found that he was missing his bow and therefore could not activate the Nemesis . De Flores threw his gold dust at the Cybermen , but Karl restrained him and declared that his intention was to betray de Flores to the Cybermen . Karl overpowered the Cybermen later and allowed de Flores to escape from his captivity ; He had been loyal to de Flores all along . De Flores and Karl discovered the Doctor ' s location and found him in possession of the bow , arrow and Nemesis itself . De Flores attempted to take them all from the Doctor , but the Cyber - Leader arrived and gunned both de Flores and Karl down . ( TV : " Silver Nemesis " ) Alternative timeline . In an alternative timeline accidentally created by the Seventh Doctor and Ace in October 1944 in which Nazi Germany won the Second World War , de Flores remained a senior Nazi officer until well into the 1960s . Elizabeth Klein claimed that he had " always the Führer ' s favourite . " When the proper timeline was restored and Klein was left stranded in 1944 , she escaped to South America and joined de Flores in self - imposed exile . Klein told the Doctor that she hoped that de Flores would succeed Hitler as Führer when the Fourth Reich was established . ( AUDIO : " A Thousand Tiny Wings " )