The War Chief The War Chief was a former friend of the Doctor . He became a renegade Time Lord who assisted the War Lord s . After the failure of the War Lords , he regenerate d , although he was deformed by the experience . He travelled back in time to use the Nazi s as his agents . He was finally stopped by the Seventh Doctor . Biography . Life on Gallifrey . Like all Time Lord s , Magnus was taken from his family at the age of eight for the selection process in the Drylands . Staring into the Untempered Schism as part of a Time Lord initiation rite , Magnus was driven mad by what he saw in the Schism . ( PROSE : " A Brief History of Time Lords " ) According to a nightmare the Fifth Doctor had under the control of the Celestial Toymaker , Magnus was the leader of the Academy clique known as the Deca . He had a particular interest in the construction of TARDIS es and an obsession with a banished race who wanted to use time travel in their War Game s . He had an attraction to Ushas , and was once warned away from her by Mortimus . After the disappearance of Rallon and Millennia , Magnus was appointed to the scientific research department for the rest of his time at the Academy . He stood by the Doctor while he was held accountable for their disappearance . ( PROSE : " Divided Loyalties " ) The Doctor once advised Magnus to reserve his regeneration s , but Magnus did not listen as he was not concerned . ( PROSE : " Invasion of the Cat - People " ) He even mocked the First Doctor for " still hobbling about in [ his ] old body " . Magnus became an ambitious and arrogant Time Lord with little time for " Theta Sigma " . He took part in a scheme to provide Gallifrey with a new power source derived from a sphere of artron energy . He hoped to revitalise the decadent Gallifreyan society . The Doctor made himself an unwelcome observer of the experiment . He realised the sphere was a living being and that Magnus ' actions were killing it . He sabotaged Magnus ' equipment and freed the creature , for which the Time Lords commended him . This angered Magnus even more . The Doctor and Magnus were bitter enemies from that day on . ( COMIC : " Flashback " ) Magnus soon began to rise rapidly in the Time Lord hierarchy , which Cardinal Borusa saw him as a threat to his own position of power , and persuaded the Celestial Intervention Agency to manufacture evidence of treason against him . Believed to be a criminal , Magnus fled from Gallifrey , became a renegade , and swore revenge on the Time Lords . ( PROSE : " " ) Ally of the War Lords . Now calling himself " the War Chief " , he worked with the War Lord s . They abducted soldiers from wars spread across Earth ' s history up though they didn ' t go too far because of the risk of humans ' technological knowledge for simulated versions of the wars from which they came . Thinking human s the most vicious species in the galaxy , the aliens hoped to pit the survivors against each other and use them to conquer Mutter ' s Spiral once they had eliminated the weak and the cowards and were left with the hardier warriors . The War Chief aided the War Lords by helping them build SIDRAT s , TARDIS - like space - time machines . They used them to kidnap the human soldiers and travel between era - specific zones which they had created . The War Chief and the Second Doctor met and recognised each other . The War Chief solicited the Doctor ' s help to double - cross the War Lords and seize power for themselves . The Doctor pretended to accept the War Chief ' s offer . The Security Chief of the operation distrusted the War Chief , believing he meant to call in the Time Lords . The two engaged in a series of machinations against each other which ended with the War Chief disgraced . He shot his rival dead . Unable to resolve matters , nor return the soldiers to their own times , the Doctor summoned the Time Lords for aid , while the War Lords uncovered the War Chief ' s plans and executed him , though he tried to talk his way around it , claiming those plans had been faked , but he wasn ' t believed . ( TV : " The War Games " ) Unknown at the time , while the War Chief remained on the War Lords ' ship , the War Chief did not die but , rather , underwent a faulty regeneration . His new form looked like two bodies fused together . He took to wearing cloaks and hoods to disguise the fact , eventually convincing the War Lords that his ' betrayal ' of them was just a misunderstanding . ( PROSE : " " ) Aftermath . Having helped the War Lords to break the time loop the Time Lords had erected around their world , the War Chief helped them travel to Nazi Germany . He served as an occult advisor to Adolf Hitler under the name " Doktor Felix Kriegslieter " , hoping to change history with the Nazis as his agents , believing that they were so vicious that they barely needed the War Lords ' conditioning . ( PROSE : " " ) One time , concerned with Hitler ' s health , Martin Bormann telephoned him . ( PROSE : " Players " ) The Seventh Doctor later confronted the War Chief , prompting him to try to take the Doctor ' s healthy body and his six remaining regenerations . However , his efforts to replace Hitler with Heinrich Himmler was thwarted by Himmler ' s devotion to his Führer . This allowed the Doctor to alert Hermann Goering to " Kriegslieter ' s " betrayal and destroy the War Chief ' s base by overloading its nuclear reactors , the brainwashed Nazis falling to the superior initiative of their mentally free opponents . In the final moments before Drachensburg castle collapsed , Ace looked down and saw the War Chief engulfed in flames , no longer malformed but appearing as his " young , tall , dark and satanically handsome " self . ( PROSE : " " ) Personality . The War Chief was an ambitious and arrogant individual , cunning , and with great tactical abilities . He pretended to serve the War Lords loyally , while plotting to take control of them after they succeeded in their plans . He also made feuds easily which made it easy for his allies to turn against him . ( TV : " The War Games " ) He was unconcerned about using up regenerations and never listened to the Doctor , who advised him not to waste them . Behind the War Chief ' s actions lay real idealism , tainted with power lust . ( PROSE : " Invasion of the Cat - People " )