DANCING ROMANA
Listening to Survival of the Fittest, Klein notes that the TARDIS translates everything into German for her.
What’s interesting is that she is English born, and while she did work in Germany for the Reich (Klein’s Story), she is only invited from Cambridge to Germany in order to try to figure out what the TARDIS is. Only for around a year.
Then Eight tricks her / convinces her into going back to WW2 to find ‘The Doctor’ to work the TARDIS, where she manages to insert herself into the Party, and ends up at Colditz, for maybe another year before Seven finally shows up. And then she screws up, Seven survives, and the Germans lose the war.
So she flees from Germany, back to England, then to Kenya. With white, British women. Albeit women with Nazi leanings. Listening to the BBC World Service. (A Thousand Tiny Wings).
So… why is Klein predisposed to German? I don’t know. She’s from ~1965 German-ruled Britain. But… I don’t know.
It sits oddly with me. Even if Klein were 40, she’d have been 20 when the Germans won the war. That’s 20 years of being in England. Her father was German, yes. But, I mean, that’s 20 years of English. And, I would expect it would take time for the Reich to force German on Britain. Years of language study, and maybe a decade of fluency.
But then another 10-20 years of immersion in English.
I like it. I think it fits, that Klein is as dedicated to the Reich as anyone (Colditz, The Architects of History), but at the same time, I wonder about language retention. I wonder about language propagation of the Third Reich if they won. And I wonder about Klein.
This is all rather moot, seeing as - SPOILERS - Klein’s paradox is resolved by her merging with the Klein from the Prime Universe, and having her memories of her anomaly erased. But it’s interesting. And Survival of the Fittest implies that there were a few adventures after A Thousand Tiny Wings.
I have Klein feels and questions and musings because I love Klein. And no one but tumblr can understand my niche.
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