The Doctor maybe had a Professor who was linked with WW2?
so i recently watched this video, and herman carter - the doctor basically had a german professor, and in one of his experiments the students had to figure out the password from the other students. the following passwords that herman got were "new" "reich" "horizons" "fourth" "bird "kill"
reich means kingdom btw, and if you know the whole ww2 story, you know it was called das dritte reich, i just thought that was a really interesting part, and maybe it could be that his professor was kinda linked to any kind of nazi/ww2 stuff.
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Knowing how Herman turned out, I wouldn't be surprised.
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Operation Paperclip.
Herman's mentor was almost definitely one of the nazi scientists that defected to the allied countries post war. There are actually several good books on the real subject, but the short end is a that after the war every scientist willing to claim they didn't really believe the nazi stuff had a job, because the cold war starting up convinced US, UK, and Italy primarily that if they didn't scoop up these scientists, the USSR would and would use them to crush the west.
One could argue letting a bunch of nazis run your science as long as they super swear not to be nazis anymore is a dumb idea, but then the threat of nuclear war with USSR made for a lot of dumb ideas.
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Second-hand ex-Nazi links are basically guarenteed through what AsherFrost brought up.
If you try to extrapolate further from it, the Nazi regime was known as the Third Reich, so the presence of "fourth", "new" and "horizons" is pretty unsettling.
IMO the most likely explanation is that the individual passwords don't mean anything, but collectively they form a pretty obvious message- So, it's something of a dogwhistle, testing him for Nazi sympathies, to what end I wouldn't really know. It's most likely just a detail meant to add a little extra intrigue/disturbing qualities to the story, though, not anything hinting at something that much grander.
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