World War II

World War II
Dates:	1937/1939 – 1945
Location:	Earth
Combatants
United Kingdom British Empire Soviet Union United States China France Australia Poland French Resistance Shakers
Nazi Germany Japan Japanese Empire Italy Romania Vichy France Tuareg
Leaders
Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-shek Dwight Eisenhower Charles de Gaulle Harry Truman
Adolf Hitler Japanese Emperor Benito Mussolini
Result
Complete Allied victory Surrender and disestablishment of Nazi Party and Japanese Empire Beginning of Cold War

World War II, also called the Second World War, was a major conflict fought on Earth in the 20th century. It began in Europe in September 1939, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus, AUDIO: Neverland) and earlier in Asia in July 1937 after a period of diplomatic hostilities beginning in 1931. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang, Log 384) Worldwide hostilities formally ended in September 1945. (PROSE: Base of Operations) Apart from a handful of neutral countries, it involved the whole of the Earth.

The Doctor stopped several groups from interfering with the war as Earth was distracted by its own chaos, including the War Lords, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus), the Players, (PROSE: Players), the Cybermen, (PROSE: Illegal Alien) and the Valbrects. (PROSE: Base of Operations) Eileen Younghusband also defended Earth from alien attacks during the conflict. (PROSE: The Last Duty)

History

Foreseeing

In 1903, after receiving a wealth of information from the future, Grigori Rasputin foresaw, among other things, the Second World War, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. (AUDIO: The Wanderer)

Origins

Treaty of Versailles

In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed at the peace conference at Versailles, formally bringing an end to World War I. George Limb was among the attendees. Chief Inspector Patrick Mullen and the Seventh Doctor later suspected that he may have had a hand in sabotaging the treaty, sowing the seeds for another conflict. (PROSE: Illegal Alien) The treaty cost Germany all her colonies and much of her European territory. (PROSE: Just War) The Allies set war reparations that, in the eyes of many Germans, were obviously meant to be too high for Germany to pay off, crippling her economically and preventing recovery. Kaiser Wilhelm II was gotten rid of, although his name remained for buildings such as the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. (AUDIO: The Alchemists)

Europe and the rise of fascism

On 9 November 1923, Adolf Hitler led an unsuccessful coup against the German government, which became known as the Beer Hall Putsch. He was arrested for treason and spent six months in prison, although he was originally sentenced for five years. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus) Despite its failure, the incident brought Hitler to the attention of George Limb, who felt he had potential and was someone the British government ought to take seriously. (PROSE: Illegal Alien) Hitler proved to be highly charismatic which helped him rise to power in later years. (PROSE: Warchild)

Benito Mussolini rose to prominence in the same period, establishing a fascist dictatorship in Italy. (AUDIO: The Rapture) Mussolini, like Hitler, also proved to be a charismatic figure. (PROSE: Warchild)

By August 1928, British Great War veteran Oliver Marks had heard rumours about a new movement in Germany formulating a further atrocity by planning another Great War. At first, he dismissed the rumours. (PROSE: The Glamour Chase)

Germany faced a grim period in the decades following the First World War. Soviets had attempted to spark a communist revolution in Germany after the conflict. The economy collapsed in 1929 with the Great Depression, and Germans began to feel neglected and abused by the United States. Jews received much of the blame for these problems, an attitude in Germany that dated back centuries.

In this context, an election was held in Germany in July 1932 which failed to deliver a majority. Another election was held in November of that year. Parties with the initials Z, DVP, KPD, SPD and NSDAP – the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei led by Hitler (PROSE: Just War) – were among those standing in the elections, all attacking the incumbent Chancellor Papen and vowing to fix the economy. Once again, no party achieved a majority, resulting instead in unsuccessful and unpopular coalitions. With no one in charge, authority effectively vanished and there was no way to deal with crime, unrest and unemployment. The thuggish Sturmabteilung, a private army owned by Hitler who claimed the real army was too corrupt and lazy, filled the void left by the unreliable police force and clamped down on unrest and subversive elements such as Bolshevists. The Nazis were not largely visible to the public so that their violent methods were less likely to drive away potential supporters.

Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the Nazi swastika. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)

Landing in Berlin in at the beginning of 1933, the First Doctor told Susan Foreman that the war was “in the wind” at this stage. Notable scientists of the period included Werner Heisenberg, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Max Planck, Eugene Wigner and Fritz Haber. With Hitler on the rise, Einstein left for the United States. Susan and the Doctor became entangled in a plot to kidnap Haber and have him extract gold from sea water. While German underground crime syndicates sought the secret to aid in the country's economic recovery, Pollitt, a member of the British Secret Intelligence Service sought the secret as well. Susan wrecked Pollitt's chances of discovering the secret and potentially changing the history of the coming war. With history back on track, the Doctor and Susan later lamented that, if Germany had been in a better financial position, Hitler may not have come to power. (AUDIO: The Alchemists)

Hitler finally did come to power on 30 January 1933. The Matrix recorded this event as being a part of the Web of Time. (AUDIO: Neverland) Mels told her high school history teacher that “A significant factor in Hitler's rise to power was the fact that the Doctor didn't stop him.” (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)

Fritz Haber fled Germany when Hitler came to power and died in exile in 1934. As the German Army had done in the previous war, the Nazis later used Haber's process to produce explosives and poisonous gases that could be used to kill hundreds of thousands of people in death camps. (AUDIO: The Alchemists, PROSE: Nothing at the End of the Lane)

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the early 1930s, Ramsay MacDonald, turned a blind eye to the new regime in Germany and instead prioritised domestic economic issues of unemployment rates and political issues concerning the Conservative Party. For this, the Seventh Doctor opined that MacDonald was an idiot. (PROSE: Log 384) Winston Churchill, meanwhile, recognised the danger posed by Hitler and the Nazis as well as Mussolini in Italy (PROSE: Players) but his warnings largely went unheeded. In the words of Edward Grainger, Churchill was a “self-glorifying, arrogant has-been… Spouting all that rubbish about Germany and Nazis.” Nevertheless, Churchill attracted sympathisers from within the Security Services. (PROSE: Log 384)

In 1934, Hitler struck against his own private army and eradicated the leadership of the SA in the Night of the Long Knives. Two thousand people were executed in one day. (PROSE: Timewyrm Exodus) Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich helped the Fifth Doctor chase the Master through Berlin as this was happening. A part of the Doctor regretted that he could not have killed both men before they carried out the crimes they would eventually commit. (PROSE: The King of Terror)

Atrocities in Asia

Before Hitler came to power, another storm was brewing in Asia. In China in 1911, Sun Yat Sen led an alliance of nationalist warlords, which became known as the Kuomintang, in a revolution which ousted the boy Emperor Pu Yi. Now in control of China, the Kuomintang faced a growing communist influence fostered by the USSR to the north. It fell to Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Yat Sen's successor as the leader of the Kuomintang, to combat the communist insurgencies. Chiang was successful in driving the Communists into the mountains of north and central China, bordering Mongolia, but the Nationalists were unable to dislodge the Communists further. Order in China eroded as the two ideologies fought for dominance.

Amid this confusion, the region of Manchuria in the north-east of China was threatened with trade strangulation by a new Russian railway stretching from Europe to the Pacific port of Vladivostok. Both Chinese and Japanese trade suffered as a result. Japan, emerging as an expansionist power on the continent, had ambitions of expanding their Empire and gaining control of China's natural resources. According to Major Ryuji Matsu of the Imperial Japanese Army, Japan also sought to bring order to a China divided by Nationalists and Communists and attract trade back to the region. In 1931, the Sakura Kai engineered a fight between the Chinese to justify the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, claiming the Chinese had attacked first. By 1932, the Japanese occupation was complete, and Pu Yi was enthroned as the ruler of the new puppet state of Manchukuo. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang)

The occupying Kwantung Army set the peasant population to work constructing Zhong Ma Fortress. The Kwantung Army committed many atrocities against the Chinese which deterred the peasants from attempting to escape. Those that did were shot on sight. Zhong Ma, a precursor to Unit 731, was a prison and research facility where the Japanese conducted experiments intended to forward the development of biological weapons. These projects were headed by the young military scientist Ishii Shiro and sponsored by the Japanese Emperor himself. Prisoners were dissected, blood samples were taken, and subjects were deliberately infected with bubonic plague, so that the Japanese could learn more about the human body and how to weaponise germs. (PROSE: Log 384) Kwantung Army Intelligence set up their headquarters in Hsinking. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang)

Shanghai imposed sanctions on Japan, worsening the trade situation of both nations. Japanese troops were deployed onto the streets of Shanghai in 1932 and briefly occupied the city. Some areas were subjected to air raids by aircraft launched from the aircraft carrier Hosho off the coast, and a number of the city's inhabitants were arrested and interrogated. Sung-Chi Li was captured by Ishiguro Takashi and interrogated by Ryuji Matsu, who promised Shanghai would one day fall to the Japanese. With Li becoming disillusioned with the capabilities of his own government to bring back stability, Matsu convinced him of Japan's need to bring order to China via their own rule and the two agreed on a partnership. Intervention by the Western powers, looking to protect their own trading centres, prevented the Shanghai crisis from escalating into full-scale war between China and Japan, at least for a short time. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang)

When Mai Ling was made a prisoner in Zhong Ma in 1933, the Seventh Doctor sought to save her before the Japanese inadvertently unleashed the ghost warrior within her, bringing untold chaos and changing the course of the war. In order to gain access to the necessary resources and information to infiltrate the fortress, the Doctor warned the British Security Services sympathetic to Churchill of alliance talks being conducted in secret between the Nazis and the Japanese. In response, the Security Services began recruiting operatives to send on a spy mission to Manchuria. It was not sanctioned by the British Government. The Doctor recruited Edward Grainger for his rescue mission. The two were briefly captured by the Japanese and experimented on but escaped and survived along with Mai Ling. Afterwards, the Doctor put forward a recommendation that Grainger be recruited in an unofficial capacity as an operative for the British Government, to be made official once the war began. Major-General Vernon Kell sent such an offer to Grainger, who accepted. (PROSE: Log 384) As his granddaughter, Linda Grangier, later recalled, he travelled a lot during the war. (PROSE: Childhood Living)

Tensions between Japan and China continued to grow as disputes over Manchuria/Manchukuo persisted. (PROSE: The Year of Intelligent Tigers) In Japan, the government was run by army generals. (PROSE: Endgame) The Amy split into two factions who disagreed on the best course of action, although both advocated expansion into other countries. The Kodo Ha, controlled by the Sakura Kai, pushed for further expansion in Manchukuo and into China to offset strategic advantages enjoyed by the Soviet Union. The Tosei Ha viewed China as Japan's main enemy but felt it better to adhere to the formal rules of engagement and achieve their ambitions within the political system. The Kodo Ha controlled the local commanders in Manchukuo and used them to assassinate various government ministers, including prime ministers, between 1933 and 1935. In February 1936, the Sakura Kai engineered a revolt in Tokyo by the Japanese First Infantry Division, supporters of the Kodo Ha. Many government officials and civil servants were killed before revolt was suppressed by imperial order. The Kodo Ha still held onto the control of the Manchukuo commanders but the Tosei Ha, at least nominally, maintained control of the Army, but made alterations to their policy. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang) By extension, they also maintained control of the government. (PROSE: Endgame)

Fighting between the Chinese and Japanese occurred in 1936. The War Lords kidnapped some of these soldiers to have them participate in the War Games, placing them in the Chinese sector. The survivors were returned home when the War Lords were defeated. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the War Games) Finally, in July 1937, the Japanese provoked a fight between Chinese soldiers at Marco Polo Bridge in order to justify further expansion into China. This ultimately forced the government to move onto a war footing, bringing war to Asia.

The front lines opened up on the Manchurian frontier, almost 400 miles north-east from Shanghai. The Japanese Twelfth Army made efforts to push south into Shangdong province, where they gained control everything north of Tai'an and the mountain of T'ai Shan. However, the initial aim of the Japanese was not to advance but to consolidate Manchuria, meaning they met minimal resistance. They launched air raids from Manchuria against Shanghai using Mitsubishi Ki-15 single-engined planes, “just to prove that they can,” according to the Fourth Doctor. Mitsubishi A5Ms also harassed KMT troop trains transporting Chinese Nationalist troops to the north. Nationalist China, meanwhile, was disadvantaged by the need to divide her forces between the Japanese front lines near Shangdong and the Communist-held regions near Mongolia.

Ishiguro Takashi began seeking revenge for the deaths of his brothers in the 1936 revolt in Tokyo. Hunted by the Sakura Kai, he fled from Japan to Hong Kong and then China and began plotting against the “traitors” who controlled Japan's military. There, under the guise of Woo, the Hong Kong-born owner of Club Do-San in Shanghai, he sought to build a united front against the Kwantung Army before they drove south from Manchuria. Bigger Chinese criminal organisations were already preparing to resist further Japanese invasions. Woo worked as a vigilante, who became known as Yan Cheh, cracking down on crimes committed against others in China. Such acts only served as costly distractions at a time when the resistance to the Japanese military had to be as strong as possible.

In August 1937, Hsien-Ko and the Tong of the Black Scorpion sought to prevent Magnus Greel from travelling to 1872, in order to formally punish him and avenge the death of Hsien-Ko's father, Li H'sen Chang. Affiliating the Tong with the Kuomintang to do so, Hsien-Ko believed her success would, among other things, allow her to change time, preventing the invasion of Manchuria and China's war against Japan altogether. She had many encounters, often fatal, with Japanese forces while travelling in Manchukuo and Shangdong on her mission. Her efforts were ultimately thwarted by Sung-Chi Li who, working for Major Matsu as a double agent, wrecked Hsien-Ko's reactor and then manipulated the Tong into fighting each other. Afterwards, the Fourth Doctor and Romana I used the TARDIS to time ram Greel's time cabinet back on course before Hsien-Ko created a temporal paradox.

Eventually, the Japanese Army moved into Shanghai. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang)

The data gathered from the experiments in Zhong Ma and Unit 731 led to the creation of biological weapons which the Japanese unleashed to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in China in the war. Germ-ridden packages were dropped on Chinese towns and villages throughout Manchuria. (PROSE: Log 384)

Europe on the brink

Amid the growing tensions back in Europe, the Spanish Civil War occurred, between 1936 and 1939. (PROSE: History 101) Spain stayed neutral in the World War. (AUDIO: Resistance)

Mussolini allied himself with Hitler with a vision of making Italy a great nation once again. Edward Greyhaven opined that Mussolini was a “fool” to ally himself with a “monster”. (PROSE: The Dying Days)

George Limb attended another conference in Munich in 1936. (PROSE: Illegal Alien)

The Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald had dinner in Berlin in 1937. The Doctor later reminded Clara that they did not and nor could they decide to kill Hitler afterwards as it was impossible for them to change the future. (TV: Kill the Moon)

Also in 1937, a new German submachine gun, the MP 38, was manufactured by Ermawerke in Erfurt. It was issued at first to the Schutzstaffel in 1938. (PROSE: The Shadow of Weng-Chiang)

Berlin under Nazi rule. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)

In 1938, the Nemesis statue passed over Earth, influencing Hitler to annex Austria. De Flores stood by Hitler as he "ordered the first giant step towards greatness." (TV: Silver Nemesis) Hitler also defied the Versailles Treaty by reoccupying the Rhineland. Winston Churchill began to fear what plans he had for the rest of Europe, more immediately with Czechoslovakia and Poland. (PROSE: Players) Czechoslovakia was indeed later invaded by Hitler. Another conference held in Munich tried to settle the crisis peacefully. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain attended, but George Limb opined that Chamberlain let Hitler walk all over him, highlighting the Allies' lack of resolve. Chamberlain returned to the United Kingdom where he announced, "I have in my hand a piece of paper..." (PROSE: Illegal Alien) which promised "peace in our time." The Fifth Doctor thought Chamberlain made wrong decisions on this occasion but for the right reasons. As time would tell, peace was not what Hitler wanted. (PROSE: One Wednesday Afternoon)

The Teselecta travelled to Berlin in 1938 where its crew executed Nazi officer General Erich Zimmerman on the charge of category three hate crimes. The Teselecta proceeded to Hitler's office to inflict on him the same punishment before realising they were too early in Hitler's time stream. Seconds later, Hitler was saved by the TARDIS crashing through his office window. The Eleventh Doctor told him that saving his life was “an accident” and warned him that “The British are coming!” before Rory Williams locked him in a cupboard. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)

In 1939, Italy invaded and conquered Albania with what was mockingly viewed by the Albanians as an “army of toy soldiers.” Their defeat at Italy's hand shamed them greatly. (PROSE: Deadly Reunion)

Poland became Germany's next target. The Nazis viewed Poland as a state created in a draconian treaty in order to punish Germany after the last war. (PROSE: Just War, AUDIO: Just War) The war in Europe formally began on 1 September 1939 with the German and Russian invasion of Poland. In response, Britain and France, against Germany's expectations, declared war on Germany on 3 September, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus) another event which the Matrix recorded as being a part of the Web of Time. (AUDIO: Neverland)

The war

The invasion of Poland lasted one month before the nation was crushed. Brigadeführer Kraus, an officer in the Schutzstaffel earned the reputation during the invasion as the Butcher of Cracow. (PROSE: Illegal Alien)

The immortal Jack Harkness, (TV: Utopia) his namesake, and Ian Gilmore served in the war as RAF pilots; (TV: Captain Jack Harkness, PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) Sergeant Benton's father served in the British Army. (HOMEVID: Wartime); Fey Truscott-Sade served as a British spy and special operative in occupied Europe; (COMIC: Me and My Shadow) and Toshiko Sato's grandparents worked as code-breakers at Bletchley Park, (TV: Greeks Bearing Gifts) as did Rachel Jensen, alongside Alan Turing. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy) Professor Alec Palmer served in the war as a spy. (TV: Hide) Famous pilot Amy Johnson died flying for the RAF Auxiliary Service in the war. (COMIC: A Wing and a Prayer) The German Hans Engel also joined the war. (COMIC: The Instruments of War) Sam Bishop's great-grandfather fought with the Eighth Army in North Africa during World War II, serving in battlefronts such as El Alamein, Tobruk, and Gazala. Following the war, he would regale the young Sam Bishop with war stories of his time there, inspiring him to eventually join UNIT. (AUDIO: Earthfall)

Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. (TV: Victory of the Daleks

The Seventh Doctor ensured Hitler would fail to prevent the British evacuation of Dunkirk, making it possible for Britain to remain in the war. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus) An earlier incarnation of the Doctor managed to cheer up Winston Churchill who was distraught by the Durkirk defeat. He advised Churchill to be truthful to the British people and tell them the situation looked bleak, but Britain would fight on regardless. He suggested this could be Churchill's "finest hour." After this, the Sixth Doctor claimed that Churchill "went out and won the war." (AUDIO: The Ultimate Adventure)

Fear of a German invasion of Britain set in after Dunkirk. Soon afterwards, a faction of the British government encountered and made a secret pact with the Shakers. The Shakers conducted a terrorist war on the German troops preparing to occupy mainland Britain, reducing the possibility of invasion. In exchange, the British promised to give the Shakers India as, ironically, Lebensraum, a promise which they had no intention of keeping. Scientists in Britain found a way of adapting Shaker principals of oscillation adjustment, allowing them to seal Shakers inside some select buildings of the BBC. They believed the laughing audience that regularly attended recording sessions were happy German occupiers and began secretly killing them until the First Doctor stopped them in 1955. (PROSE: Losing the Audience)

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The Luftwaffe bomb London. (TV: The Empty Child

In 1940 and 1941, Germany conducted bombing raids over Great Britain, the most famous of which was the London Blitz. (TV: The Empty Child, Victory of the Daleks) Children were evacuated to the countryside. (TV: The Curse of Fenric, The Empty Child) Welsh families took care of children from London. (WC: Alien File: Eve) The Royal Air Force carried out its own systematic bombings of Germany, which resulted in millions of German civilian deaths, far more than the British had lost in the Blitz. (PROSE: The Turing Test) The bombardment of Germany crippled Reverend Wainwright's faith. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)

In 1939, a force of time travelling Cybermen from the 30th century arrived in Jersey in the Channel Islands and set up operations there, using the Le Mur Engineering factory as a base. The war began shortly afterwards and the Nazis invaded the Channel Islands in 1940, the only British soil that would be occupied by Germany during the war, forcing the Cybermen to retreat northwards to mainland Britain where the Cyber-Leader was hit by a Luftwaffe bomb during the Blitz and went rogue. The Cybermen brought in Wall, the owner of Le Mur (which was French for "Wall"), as a replacement figurehead and they set up in the Peddler Electronic Engineering factory in London. George Limb, by this point having strong connections to London's criminal underground, betrayed his country by aiding the Nazis and the Cybermen so that he could gain the knowledge of time travel and Cyber-technology.

In November 1940, with the aid of Cybermats, the Cybermen began to gather up citizens for conversion but the Seventh Doctor, Patrick Mullen and Cody McBride lit up the Peddler factory one night during a bombing raid, destroying the Peddler factory and the main Cyberman operations. The Doctor then left for Jersey to the Le Mur factory where Limb and Nazis led by Captain Hartmann were attempting to revive the Cybermen left in hibernation from before the Nazi takeover. With Ace a Nazi hostage, the Doctor was forced to revive the Cybermen but he was able to order them to attack the Nazis, resulting in a fierce skirmish at Jersey which ended with the factory's destruction caused by the Doctor, killing Nazi and Cyberman alike, although Limb escaped in the Cyberman time capsule. Nevertheless, the whole incident gained the Cybermen a foothold in London and hundreds of them remained inactive and hidden within the sewers, waiting to be revived to launch an invasion that would come many years after the end of the war. (PROSE: Illegal Alien, TV: The Invasion) The Germans would also continue to occupy the Channel Island until 1945. (PROSE: Just War)

In 1941, Edwin Bracewell approached a desperate Winston Churchill, offering what to all appearances were robotic war machines of a futuristic design that Churchill could use first to fend off Luftwaffe air raids on London and later, in numbers, take the war to Germany. Churchill summoned the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond to view the new weapon. The Doctor realised immediately that the "Ironsides" Bracewell had "created" were actually the Daleks. They were using themselves as bait to get the Doctor to aid in the recreation of the Dalek race. A small number of Spitfire fighters were briefly upgraded with Dalek technology to fight a Dalek flying saucer that was turning on the lights and letting the German bombers see their targets, but all alien tech was subsequently removed by the Doctor to prevent wide-scale tampering with history. The Daleks attempted to destroy Earth with a powerful explosive within Edwin Bracewell, who was actually an android of their construction. The Doctor and Amy defused it. The Daleks escaped and Bracewell presumably lived a normal, human life. (TV:Victory of the Daleks) Later that year, Churchill tried to telephone the Doctor, but instead reached River Song in Stormcage. He told her of a mysterious van Gogh painting he and Bracewell had found. (TV: The Pandorica Opens)

For a short time on both sides, the Cardiff rift linked 1941 and 2008, allowing Jack Harkness and Toshiko Sato of Torchwood Three to meet with the original Captain Jack Harkness and to cause suspicions in the members of the institute about Bilis Manger. On the day following their meeting, the original Jack Harkness would inevitably be killed in a firefight. The present-day Jack did not interfere with his final fate to preserve the timeline. (TV: Captain Jack Harkness)

During the war, when it appeared that the United Kingdom would be invaded by Nazi Germany, four citadels were built under the surface of London. They were intended to allow the British government to continue operations if the worst happened. (AUDIO: The Fifth Citadel)

In 1941, the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler landed in London during the Blitz. While there, they defeated the Empty Child plague and met Jack Harkness. (TV: The Empty Child/ The Doctor Dances)

In June 1941, a small group of Germans, assisted by Miss Wyckham, entered the south coast of England. They used a piece of Chronosteel found in the Rhineland to block early warning systems, which they hoped would allow the Germans to invade Great Britain in full force. Clyde Langer and George Woods stopped them, with Clyde returning the Chronosteel to its rightful place with the Shopkeeper and Captain in 2010. (TV: Lost in Time)

In 1941, the British and Australian forces fought against the Germans in the North African campaign with Matilda tanks. The tanks were so good that some were captured so that they Germans themselves could use them. (COMIC: The Instruments of War)

In December 1941, both the Allies and Axis were ordered to strike the Sontaran world engine weapon the Warsong from both sides in order to buy time for the Twelfth Doctor and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to break through the defences of the Warsong. (COMIC: The Instruments of War)

The Third Doctor meets Nazis during the war in January 1942. (COMIC: Timebenders)

In January 1942, Nazis in France forced Pierre Vedrun to build them a machine to travel to England. His daughter, Monique Vedrun used it to escape, but actually also travelled through time to the 1970s. There, the Third Doctor met the Nazis and her, secretly following them back to 1942. He attempted to stop the Nazis from becoming knowledgeable time travellers, tricking them into going through it again, but this time to a British jail in 1942. (COMIC: Timebenders)

Britain invented the computer during the war. However, this would not become public knowledge, and computers would not become household items until many decades after the war had ended. (PROSE: Silhouette)

In 1943, Fenric was working with his Haemovores at Maiden's Point. Russia and Britain, while nominally allies, were plotting against each other in preparation for post-war conflicts. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)

In June 1944, the allied troops staged the Normandy landings to invade mainland Europe. (PROSE: The Taint) The Twelfth Doctor and Clara visited the liberated Paris, where they thwarted a plan by the Darapok Empire to brainwash humanity into destroying itself by destroying their transmitter on the Eiffel Tower, and then frightening them off. (COMIC: Trust)

The Seventh Doctor shot at Colditz. (AUDIO: Colditz)

During October of that year, the Seventh Doctor and Ace arrived at Colditz. (AUDIO: Colditz)

Also in 1944, with the failure of the Blitz to break Britain three years earlier, the Germans launched V1 and V2 attacks against London. The city survived that too and was not attacked again on such a scale until the 22nd century Dalek invasion. (PROSE: Illegal Alien)

In 1945, an amnesiac Eighth Doctor, Alan Turing and Graham Greene were involved in an unexplained alien conflict and survived the annihilation of Dresden by British and American bombers. (PROSE: The Turing Test) Ian Gilmore witnessed Dresden's destruction during a flight and tried to put it out his mind after. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)

The Eleventh Doctor was in a German prisoner of war camp and tried to escape. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut)

The Allies' victory over Germany in World War II was marked by VE Day on 8 May 1945. A major celebration took place in Trafalgar Square in London. (PROSE: Magic of the Angels) The Seventh Doctor and his companions Ace and Hex were present in London for the celebrations. Prior to this visit, Hex had never heard of VE Day. (AUDIO: Casualties of War)

The Japanese surrendered after atomic bombs were dropped on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending the war. A third bomb was planned to be dropped on Kyoto, but the aircraft carrying the bomb, the Sky Jack, fell into a black hole. (COMIC: Sky Jacks)

Aftermath

After the war, heightened tensions between capitalist Western nations, particularly the US and the UK, and communists nations, most notably the USSR, created an uneasy period known as the Cold War. Britain's four citadels set up in case of a Nazi invasion were maintained due to the threat posed by the Soviet Union. (PROSE: First Frontier, Endgame; TV: Dreamland, Cold War; AUDIO: Threshold, Protect and Survive, The Fifth Citadel)

Despite Hitler's suicide and the collapse of the Nazi regime, Nazism survived as an ideology and neo-Nazis still sought to make Hitler's vision of Earth a reality. (TV: Silver Nemesis, PROSE: The Shadow in the Glass, Down, Illegal Alien)

After the war, Vienna was divided into four zones patrolled by the United Kingdom, France, the United States and the Soviet Union. (AUDIO: Quicksilver)

During the war, a large number of alien spacecraft was shot down, causing a black market of alien artefacts. Norton Folgate and his colleagues at the Torchwood Institute had to deal with this, and still were in 1953. (AUDIO: Ghost Mission)

By 1966, certain parts of London were still in the process of being rebuilt. (AUDIO: The Perpetual Bond) One of them was Bermondsey. (AUDIO: Threshold)

The next World War was World War III which was fought at some point prior to the 25th century, as was World War IV. (AUDIO: Frostfire)

Alternative universes

In a parallel universe visited by the Third Doctor, the Republic of Great Britain and White Russia were able to crush Nazi Germany by intimidating Adolf Hitler into backing down from his sabre-rattling. Consequently, World War II never took place. (PROSE: The Face of the Enemy)

While on a fishing trip to an island to the Pacific Ocean on 25 July 1963, the Fifth Doctor discovered that the TARDIS had materialised in an alternate timeline in which World War II had never ended. After being held at gunpoint by an American fighter pilot native to this timeline named Angus "Gus" Goodman, the Doctor offered him the chance to get off the island, which was Japanese territory. Goodman accepted the Doctor's offer and became a short-lived companion. (COMIC: Lunar Lagoon, 4-Dimensional Vistas) However, he was killed by the Moderator, a hitman in the employ of Josiah W. Dogbolter, before he could be returned in the United States in his timeline. (COMIC: The Moderator)

Marcus Americanius Scriptor encountered many universes where the Nazis won World War II. Many of these were collected into the Greater German Reich, which waged a war against the Empire of Empires during the War. (PROSE: Warlords of Utopia)

In another alternative timeline accidentally created by the Seventh Doctor and Ace's arrival in Colditz Castle in October 1944, Nazi scientists used the laser technology contained in Ace's Walkman to refine uranium and create nuclear weapons. They subsequently bombed New York City and Moscow, forcing the surrender of the United States and the Soviet Union and winning Germany the war. This timeline was negated by an alternative version of the Eighth Doctor who, while posing as a German scientist named Johann Schmidt, fabricated a "flight log" for the TARDIS and manipulated Elizabeth Klein into travelling back in time to Colditz in October 1944 on the pretext of retrieving the Doctor so that he could teach her to pilot the TARDIS. Her lover Major Jonas Faber saw through Schmidt's trickery but was too late as Klein had already decided to disobey his orders and make the trip into the past. Unfortunately for Klein, her arrival in Colditz alerted the Seventh Doctor to the impending alteration of history and he and Ace were able to prevent it. (AUDIO: Colditz, Klein's Story)

In an alternative timeline in which Hitler did not lose the power of the Timewyrm, Germany had conquered the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe by 1941. After visiting the occupied London in May 1951 in this timeline, the Seventh Doctor and Ace prevented this from coming to pass. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)

Behind the scenes

According to the non-narrative book Doctor Who The Official Annual 2011, in an alternative timeline in which the Doctor did not find the Ironsides, they turned the tide of the war and took the fight to Germany. After the war was won, Churchill was pressured by Stalin and Truman into having the Ironsides destroyed by a nuclear bomb.