The Daleks were based on the Nazis
... by their creator, Terry Nation, who suggested their call of 'Exterminate!', their obsession with forcible eugenics and their dedication to total conformity. The BBC designer Raymond Cusick, meanwhile, came up with the distinctive pepper-pot shape and the zapper with its sinister storm trooper salute. In The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1966) the Daleks roll into London and turn Britain's stout inhabitants into mind-controlled, brainwiped 'Robomen' -- a stark nod back to the once-real possibility of an Axis invasion of Britain.
