p.3
Operation Sealion:
The German plan for an invasion of England in late 1940, preceded by a
Luftwaffe offensive to gain air superiority over the RAF. In actuality
the weather in spring 1940 was ideal, helping the Dunkirk evacuation between
May 26 to June 14 of 338,000 British, French, and Belgian troops.
p.5
Festival of Britain 1951:
In actuality a celebration calculated by the Labour government to distract
the English from rationing, the Cold War and the Burgess-MacLean scandal
with impressive architecture, the National Health Service and nuclear power.
p.6
Skylon:
(Text
submitted by Richard, or Skywarp McGill) The Skylon was a very tall, 'futuristic'
looking construction, a bit like a rocket, that was on display at the 1951
festival, as a kind of blatant imitation of the Trilon, as constructed
for the New York World Fair thing in the 30s.
Commander Millington's
Office: In the serial "The Curse of Fenric" Commander Millington, a
military intelligence officer, had an office identical to a cipher room
in Berlin to play out his obsession with the Nazi mindset, an aid in deciphering
codes.
p.7
Edward VIII and Queen
Wallis: After the death of George V Edward, Prince of Wales was to
become king. He became engaged to Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee,
and rather than leave her to become king he abdicated. He was a Nazi sympathiser
and was effectively exiled from the UK before the war.
p.8
Sir Oswald Mosley:
(1896-1980)Founder of the British Union of Fascists in 1932 and its leader
until his internment for openly supporting Hitler, he held office with
the Conservatives and Labour before the war.
p.9
Meddling Monk: One
of the Doctor's own people who meddled in time for selfish reasons. He
left their home planet 50 years after the Doctor in an advanced model TARDIS,
and was thwarted twice in "The Time Meddler" and "The Daleks' Masterplan".
tanner: 12 pennies
in a shilling, 20 shillings in a pound. Got it? (The pound sterling was
decimalised in 1971.) A bob is a shilling.
p.10
Ersatz: imitation.
p.11
Dixon of Dock Green:
BBC TV drama from the early sixties, one of the first cop shows. The policeman
in Totter's Lane in "An Unearthly Child" is an homage to Sgt. Dixon.
p.12
Wie heissen Sie, Dummkopf?:
What's your name, dummy?
Sie still! Sit still!
(imperative)
Namen? Names?
p.13
anschnauzen: snorting;
a Nazi interrigation technique calculated to disorient.
p.16
Wehrmacht: Defense
Force.
Dome of Discovery:
p.21
Arnold the Judas:
Judas, the 13th disciple of Jesus, betrayed him to the Romans. Also, Arnold
Rimmer from "Red Dwarf" has a middle name: Judas.
p.23
Neo-Nazi Classical:
Albert Speer was a Nazi architect who designed the Nuremburg Stadium, the
Chancellery and many other grandiose edifices in this style.
New Berlin: Actually,
Hitler wanted to call the new capital Germania. And since, in this alternate
history, the Allies didn't demolish the old one, he had another use for
slave labour.
Waterloo Bridge: London
landmark on the Thames just downstream of Hungerford train bridge and Westminster
Bridge, the one the Daleks crossed in "The Dalek Invasion of Earth". An
explosive Dalek battle scene for "Remembrance of the Daleks" was filmed
there, and the Museum of the Moving Image is nearby.
The Strand: London
street running from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street, just west of Waterloo
Bridge.
The Savoy: Swanky
hotel on the south side of the Strand, opposite Exeter Street.
The Ritz:
p.25
Noughts and Crosses:
X's and O's.
p.26
Hesitation, deviation,
repetition: hallmarks of the BBC radio panel quiz show "Just a Minute",
hosted by Nicholas Parsons with Derek Nimmo, Peter Jones, Kenneth Williams
and Clement Freud. Contestants must speak for 60 seconds on a subject
without interruption for hesitation, deviation or.. oh bugger.
p.27
Heraus, Schweinhund!
Raus!: Get out, pig-dog! Out!
p.29
automatic pistol:
Automatic pistols, such as the Luger, have a single-action reflex and do
not need to be cocked.
p.30
the OK Corral: Site
of the gunfight between Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp and Wyatt's friend
John "Doc" Holliday and the Clanton gang on Oct. 26, 1881. Billy Clanton
and Tom and Frank McLaury were killed in the space of thirty seconds.
The 1st Doctor assisted in a completely dissimilar gunfight, but at the
same place and time, and with some of the same gunfighters.
Nach Festival, bitte.
Schnell!: To
the Festival, please. Quickly!
p.32
The best laid plans of
mice and men gang aft agley: Robert Burns. (Text
submitted by Jamal Hannah) quoted by the Doctor in (I think) "Terror of
the Zygons". some Tom Baker story, anyway. Probably
'Terror of the Zygons', since it takes place in Scotland. Burns is the
quintessential Scottish poet, next to Dave McIntee.
p.37
Natürlich, gnädiges
Fräulein: Naturally, dear girl.
No one expects the Reichinspektor-General:
Shameless in-joke for Monty Python fans. An episode featured a running
gag in which a character would come to say "I didn't expect the Spanish
Inquisition" upon which the Spanish Inquisition would burst in, say "Nobody
expects the Spanish Inquisition" and attempt unsuccessfulyto torture the
actors.
p.39
Johann Schmidt: The
Doctor sometimes goes undercover as Doctor John Smith, the first instance
in "The Wheel in Space". This is merely the name's german homonym.
p.44
dogsbody: lackey.
p.46
time path indicator:
see "Timewyrm: Genesys".
p.49
Dalek: Augmented
alien blob inhabiting a robotic travel machine, of a race which regularly
threatens the Doctor. Its first mention in the New Adventures, unusual
because the editors technically didn't have the right to include any in
the series.
kedgeree: A dish
made of cold fish, boiled rice, eggs and condiments, served hot.
p.50
Kommen Sie!: Come
here (third person imperative)
p.51
sehr gut: very good.
Reichsmuseum: Formerly
the British Museum which still stands in Bloomsbury, south of Russell Square
and north of New Oxford Street. Marx studied there, and the Rosetta Stone
is kept there.
Rubenesque: Similar
to the women in the pictures of Flemish baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens
(1577-1640); voluptuous, chunky.
Wagnerian: The same
only to extreme; add a martial Norse/Teutonic feel to the scene.
p.52
Sachshausen concentration
camp: Possibly Sachsenhausen concentration camp, as large as Buchenwald
and Dachau.
p.59
two million square metres:
Two kilometres long by one kilometre wide. Very large.
Martin Bormann: Hitler's
private secretary. The circumstances of his death in 1945 are uncertain
and he may have escaped to South America, the highest-ranking Nazi suspected
to have done so.
p.61
no worse than the playground:
Oh yes.
Real History After Dunkirk:
Guderian and Rommel were ordered to hold back from cutting off the
Allied escape from Dunkirk so that Goering could obliterate them with the
Luftwaffe. He failed and the Allied Expeditionary Force was allowed to
escape. The Luftwaffe were unable to achieve air superiority over the
RAF; Hitler decided to bomb civilian targets instead of airfields and radar
stations after the English bombed Berlin. Weather in late summer 1940
was good, no freak storms sunk any number of ships of the Royal Navy, and
Operation Sealion was called off.
p.63
.303 rifle with bayonet:
Possibly a Mauser Gewehr '98 K.
p.66
Hermit on top of a mountain:
Mystic tutor of the Doctor on Gallifrey. Possibly K'Anpo Rinpoche ("Planet
of the Spiders"), possibly Azmael ("The Twin Dilemma").
p.72
Whitehall: Runs from
Trafalgar Square, past the Admiralty, Scotland Yard, the War Office, the
Horse Guards, the Ministry of Defence, Downing Street, the Cenotaph and
the Foreign Office to Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament.
p.73
black magic: Himmler
really was into some freaky stuff. He took seriously any religious doctrine
which could justify his racial ideas. Pagan, Norse, Greco-Roman, Islamic,
anything.
p. 79
Sten gun: hastily
and cheaply manufactured by the British at the start of the war and expected
to be crap, it was invaluable. So why do the BFK have them?
p.81
The Red Slayer:
p.86
Power corrupts; absolute
power corrupts absolutely: The historian John Emerich Edward Dalberg
Acton,1834-1902, was one of the greatest spokesmen of English liberalism.
He served in the House of Commons from 1859 to 1865 and was created 1st
Baron Acton in 1869.
It was Acton's contention
that "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Great men are almost always bad men."
So maybe it wasn't Thomas
Jefferson said that.
Sisterhood salve: The
Sisterhood of Karn manufactures a rejuvenating salve useful for traumatic
regenerations in Time Lords. The Doctor had occasion to visit Karn to
defeat "The Brain of Morbius".
p.87
broken-down drug-addicted
ex-pilot: Riechsmarshall Hermann Goering, leader of the Luftwaffe.
failed chicken farmer:
Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS and the Gestapo.
unsuccessful snob of
a champagne salesman with a fake title: Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign
Minister.
ratty little lecher embittered
by a club foot: Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister.
paranoid failed art student:
Adolf Hitler.
p.89
washed down the plughole:
In the 1st Doctor serial "Planet of Giants" the TARDIS crew were miniaturised
and almost drowned in a sink plughole.
Rochester, Gravesend,
Southampton: London satellites dowstream on the Thames.
Nature abhors a vacuum:
René Descartes.
p.90
pressure point: In
"Survival" the Doctor stunned a man but touching his forehead with one
finger.
Venusian nerve pinch:
plagiarised from the Vulcan nerve pinch from "Star Trek". The 3rd Doctor
favoured Venusian martial arts.
p.97
Attila the Hun: Commander
of the nomadic Huns who harassed the eastern half of the Roman Empire during
the 440s and devastated much of the western half of the empire in 451-52.
p.100
Marlene Dietrich:
Non-Nazi German sex goddess (1901-1992). Popularised trousers for women.
O-level Cheetah:
Examinations of the Graduate Certificate of Education (GCE)taken in five
to eight subjects at about 16 in the English education system. Ace was
partially turned into a Cheetah in "Survival".
p.102
Laurel and Hardy:
Hollywood slapstick duo of the twenties and thirties. Stan Laurel of Lancashire,
England was thin; Oliver Hardy of Georgia, USA was corpulent and bombastic.
Hence the resemblence to Goebbels and Goering.
p.103
Ludendorff: General
Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937) commanded the Western Front with Hindenburg
in 1917 and 1918. He participated in the unsuccessful 1923 Nazi Putsch
and sat as a National Socialist in the Reichstag from 1924 to 1928.
Odeonplatz:
p.105
Max-Josephsplatz:
yellow Fiat: Wasn't
the philosophy painting cars 'any colour you like, as long as it's black'
in the old days?
p.117
keyring: A Stattenheim
remote control. First heard of in "The Mark of the Rani", the Rani had
remote control of her TARDIS. The 2nd Doctor obtained one in "The Two
Doctors", something of a mystery as the 6th Doctor didn't have one. The
continuity of "The Two Doctors " is confusing.
p.123
Deutscher Hof:
p.127
Court of St.James: Hall
in St. James' Palace on the Mall, down the road from Buckingham Palace.
Ambassadors are accredited there, which would explain Goebbels' visit.
p.129
Karinhall: Goering's
hunting estate and palace.
p.140
Professor Higgins:
Male lead of "My Fair Lady", a Lerner & Lowe musical based on George
Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion". Higgins was a language expert who educated
a working-class girl, Eliza Doolittle.
nurse: The Doctor
has never had a personal nurse on-screen.
p.145
Hotel Adlon:
Unter den Linden:
p.146
Nazi papers: Possibly
the Volkischer Beobachter, the Nazi Party Organ.
concentration camps for
six years: Between 1933 and 1938 the Nazis oppressed the Jews and
opened concentration camps. On the night of November 9th, 1938 267 synagogues
were burned and 20 000 people arrested.
p.147
Tiergarten:
p.151
Kronprinzenstrasse, off
Kurfurstendamm:
Chancellery:
p.153
ultimatum: the British
ultimatum expired on September 3 at 1100 hours. Hitler likely had more
warning of it than he does in "Exodus". Chamberlain announced the declaration
of war at 1115.
p.155
old cathedral at one
end of Kurfurstendamm:
p.156
thick glasses: these
people all have very weak eyes.
French ultimatum: The
French ultimatum, like the British one, was delivered on September 1.
The French declared war after 1100 on the 3rd, but before their own ultimatum
had expired.
p.158
unsatisfactory advance:
This is September 3, two days after German troops entered Poland.
The Poles did not surrender until 27 September. Hitler did spend time
in Poland during the campaign.
p.159
Tell me about your uncle:
The thick glasses are mind-control tools.
p.166
Prinz-Albrechtstrasse:
p.167
Borusa and Flavia:
Cardinal, later Lord President, Borusa was the Doctor's schoolmaster on
Gallifrey. He appeared in "The Deadly Assassin", "The Invasion of Time",
"The Arc of Infinity", and "The Five Doctors", after which he was trapped
for eternity in a block of stone. Chancellor Flavia also appeared in "The
Five Doctors".
p.169
repugnant: Himmler
became physically ill on the only occasion he visited a concentration camp
and witnessed a mass grave being dug and filled. His aversion to blood
explains why he was such a bad chicken farmer.
Holy Grail: The mythical
cup which Jesus offered communion from at the Last Supper, and which caught
blood from the wound in his side on the cross. Joseph of Arimathea, the
man who donated his tomb to Jesus, is said to have brought the Grail to
England, fueling the Arthurian myth.
Golden Dawn:
(Text
submitted by Jamal Hannah) reference to the grandly named Estoteric Order
of the Golden Dawn formed in the 1880's(?) which still exists today. arguably
the most influential and important western occult group of the last hundred
years. I cannot summarize the group adequately other than to say that it
syncretized material from just aobut everywhere, and tended to see themselves
as doing good and advancing the spiritual nature of their members and the
world. It continues to this day though various groups duke it out as to
who has the claim to call themselves the "real" Golden Dawn. Most famous
members: William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley. IRL the Nazis persecuted
members of the Golden Dawn living in Germany. They did not like them at
all.
Cosmic Ice: Dream-inspired
cosmic theory. The planets and moons of the solar system, and the milky
way, are so much quantities of ice resulting from the collision of a 'water
star' and a red giant.
Atlantis: Mythical
island whose destruction has been witnessed three times in 'Doctor Who',
and each time in a different way.
Secret Masters:
(Text
submitted by Jamal Hannah) In western syncretic occultism, the Secret Masters
are mysterious folk who benevolently shape human affairs. often cited as
the guiding force between human enlightenment. They manifest themselves
overtly in altered states of consciousness or manipulate from behind the
scenes. Remind us of anyone we know? The
7th Doctor.
p.175
dilly dilly: From
the children's folk song "Lavender Blue".
p.177
The War Lords: myopic
leather-obsessed humanoid alien race which the Doctor fought in "The War
Games". Assisted by a renegade Time Lord known as the War Chief, the War
Lords kidnapped groups of soldiers from major wars from Earth history:
the First World War, the Russo-Japanese War, the Boer War, the Crimean
War, the American Civil War, the Stuart Rebellion of 1745 and the Roman
Wars. Through a series of battles they intended to cobble together an
army of the Earth's best soldiers to take over the galaxy.
p.178
virgin: Fan fiction
has been written to suggest that Ace had carnal knowledge long before this
point. The incident is mentioned in "Happy Endings", so it's canon.
p.180
sonic screwdriver:
The sonic screwdriver's first appearence was in "Fury from the Deep".
It served the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Doctors until it was destroyed by a
Terileptil in "The Visitation". However, it's not finished yet.
Gallifreyan Army Knife:
Invented exclusively for this passage.
Capitol Guard: Probably
the Chancellery Guard seen in "The Deadly Assassin", "The Invasion of Time",
"Arc of Infinity", "The Five Doctors" and "The Trial of a Time Lord".
Castellan Spandrell:
Commissioner of the Chancellery Guard in "The Deadly Assassin".
p.184
Night of the Long Knives:
June 30, 1934. 77 men were summarily executed after an alleged plot against
Hitler's régime. Hitler purged his rival Ernst Roehm of the social
revolutionary wing of the Party, the Sturm-Anschluss (storm troopers, SA
or Brownshirts) leadership and the Catholic leader Erich Klauserer. Hitler
feared Roehm's desire for a second revolution and the union of the SA with
the regular army. Roehm and the SA were too powerful.
Bendlerstrasse:
p.186
regenerate: Time
Lords have a fixed cycle of twelve regenerations ("The Deadly Assassin"),
giving them thirteen lives.
p.187
Celestial Intervention
Agency: Top-secret Gallifreyan government agency. Since intervention
in Time is officially forbidden to Time Lords, only a covert operations
group can keep the Universe safe for Time Lords. The Doctor became an
unwilling deep-cover agent for the CIA after his first trial in "The War
Games".
p.194
SIDRATS: inferior
TARDISes manufactured by the War Chief for the War Lords. They could materialise
and dematerialise and were dimensionally transcendental, but had a limited
lifespan. The acronym stands for Space and Inter-Dimensional Robot All-purpose
Transporter and is pronounced S-eye-drat.
reactor: The first
atomic pile was completed on December 2, 1942 in the squash court at the
University of Chicago. This scene is in the Axis countries in September
1939.
p.197
Quasimodo: Protagonist
of Victor Hugo's 1833 novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".
p.199
Inquisition: Medieval
church court instituted to seek out and prosecute heretics.
p.204
armoured column:
Armoured columns cannot be thrown together in a matter of days, especially
when the armed forces are otherwise occupied in Poland.
p.205
supermen: term coined
by Friedrich Nietzche, a 19th-century German philosopher and originator
of existentialism and some Nazi philosophy.
p.206
Rommel: Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel, who commanded an armored division in the battle of France
in 1940, led the Afrika Korps until their defeat in late 1942 at El Alamein,
and helped in the defence of France aainst the Allies. He committed suicide
in the summer of 1944 rather than face charges of participation in a plot
against Hitler.
p.207
tattoo: a military
band concert with marching bands, brass bands and pipe and drum bands usually
held on a large parade ground or stadium.
A good soldier doesn't
die for his country, he gets the enemy to die for his: General
George S. Patton.
p.209
brilliant success:There
is evidently a stitch in time here to save the narrative. Hitler has only
just left Berlin to help with the unsatisfactory advances in Poland two
days after the invasion started. The Polish campaign was not an unqualified
success; it took a month for the Germans and Russians together to defeat
the poorly-armed Poles.
p.216
Pyhhric victory:
A ruinous victory. The term was coined after Pyrrhus, king of Epirus,
a brilliant general who won battles at high cost.
p.217
Felsennest:
p.221
Aachen: German city
near Belgium and the Netherlands. It was Charlemagne's northern capital
and the center of Carolingian civilization in the 8th Century AD. German
kings were crowned there between 936 and 1531.
Rodert:
p.222
Abbeville: French
coastal town and the destination of the southern end of the pincer movement
which trapped the British Expeditionary Force and other Allies at Dunkirk.
Boulogne and Calais:
French coastal towns on the English Channel.
Guderian: Heinz Guderian,
a German officer who devised the Blitzkrieg strategy. Commanded the German
armed forces in the offensives of 1938, 39 and 40. Was less successful
on the Eastern Front in 1942. Chief of the general staff in 1944 and early
1945.
p.225
Stukas: The Junkers
Ju-87 Stuka, a German dive bomber usuccessfully used by the Luftwaffe to
destroy the British Expeditionary Force on the beach at Dunkirk. It was
much more successful in earlier Blitzkrieg actions where the Germans had
air superiority.
p.231
South Bank: The South
Bank of the Thames in London.
p.232
hurdy-gurdy: Actually
a barrel-piano ed by a street musician. The hurdy-gurdy was a mechanical
violin with a similar action used in French courts until the 18th Century.
Also easily confused with the hurdy-gurdy is the barrel-organ used in English
churches after the 18th Century.
Battersea Park: South
Bank recreation area just north of Balham and adjoining the now-disused
Battersea Power Station and Chelsea Bridge, south of Victoria train station.