His mother smuggled out of Berlin, her death faked. He was raised to revere his father's memory as the new leader of the Fourth Reich. He prepared rituals with what he believed was a scrying glass while he gathered his forces in an Antarctica naval base. His existence was uncovered by the Sixth Doctor, Claire Aldwych and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in 2001, the Doctor dismissing him as a pathetic supporter of a barren philosophy that he knew would never have the strength to survive in the modern world. Hitler Jr. was killed when he forced the Doctor to take him back in time to meet his father, who shot him in the head, thinking him a madman thanks to the Doctor's previously-established identity of Major-General Johann Schmidt. (PROSE: The Shadow in the Glass)