Blott

Miniseries
There is very little information relating Blott's background, apart from the fact he was shown standing alone on a bridge during what is presumably a prisoner exchange, depicted during flashbacks in certain episodes.

Childhood
Discovered during the mid 1920's, in the ladies room of Dresden railway station, by a female cleaner who refused to accept responsibility for his appearance, Blott spent his childhood in an orphanage whose staff tended to push him into the background whenever there were visitors.

War Service
After a period as a member of the Hitler Youth, and a brief stint as a Luftwaffe aerial gunner, which ended with him shooting down two of the Bf 109 fighters that were escorting his squadron, Blott was transferred to an Italian bomber crew as a navigator, in order to stiffen the resolve of the crew he was assigned to.

Following a heated argument over the location of Margate - which Blott insisted was located in Worcestershire - the crew dumped their bombs over Exmoor, and headed back to their base, only to run out of fuel over North Wales, and crash into the side of a mountain, leaving the - now naked - Blott as the only survivor.