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This Man’s Name Is Adolf Hitler, and He’s Running for Re-Election

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Nw in PJ Media:

It’s no joke. Nor is it evidence of some resurgent National Socialism. Namibia, a country in southwest Africa that has gotten little attention in the U.S. ever since Garrett Morris, in the guise of a Namibian official, issued an urgent appeal for fondue sets on Saturday Night Live in 1976, now has a new claim to fame. A politician whose name is actually Adolf Hitler Uunona is running for re-election as a district councilor, and is very likely to win again. He insists that his name is not an indication of any larger nefarious forces at work. This time, it may really not be.

Adolf Hitler Uunona is a member of the leftist SWAPO (South West Africa People’s Organization) party, and despite his leftism, appears to be well-liked among his constituents: he won 84.88% of the vote in 2020, and stands to win another comfortable victory in the election on Wednesday. The people of Oshana, where Uunona’s district of Ompundja is located, clearly don’t mind his name.

Uunona says that he does not emerge from a family of National Socialist ideologues. He is 59 years old, which means that he was born in 1966, 21 years after his namesake put an end to his own mad, evil life. Hitler may be revered in some quarters, but Uunona insists he was not in Namibia when he was growing up. Back in 2020, Uunona told the German newspaper Bild: “For me, as a child, it was a completely normal name. Only as an adolescent did I understand: This man wanted to conquer the whole world. I have nothing to do with any of that.”

Uunona was anxious to be reassuring, adding: “The fact that I have this name doesn’t mean that I want to subjugate Oshana now. It doesn’t mean that I’m striving for world domination. My father named me after this man. He probably didn’t even understand what Adolf Hitler stood for.” Uunona doesn’t even seem to be a follower of Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens or Nick Fuentes.

Bild explains that the brief period of German colonization (1884-1915) left behind a continuing influence: “The first name Adolf is not uncommon in the former colony of German South-West Africa. There is also a German-language newspaper, German radio stations, street names (such as Bahnhofstraße, Bismarckstraße), German place names (Lüderitz, Mariental, Helmeringhausen, etc.), and a small German-speaking minority. Until a few years ago, there was even a ‘Blitzkrieg Bunker Bar,’ a heavy metal pub, in the capital city of Windhoek. The ruling Swapo party has its headquarters on Hans-Dietrich-Genscher-Straße.”

All right, but is there any nostalgia for Hitler? The Bild story carried a photo that bore this caption: “’Adolf Hitler’ and a swastika are visible on this car from Adolf Hitler Uunona’s Oshana constituency.” Uunona, however, maintained the car neither belonged to him nor reflected his beliefs.

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  2. Well, Namibia is a one-party state, so it’s perfectly possible that Adolf Uunona is participating in the only legal way there is in that country

    Granted, Adolf may be a common German name, but he might wanna drop “Hitler” from his middle name? Particularly if he’s not a national socialist or fascist of any sort

    • As far as I recall from history, Namibia once belonged to the Germans. And between 1904 and 1908, (certainly not during the Second World War) the Germans massacred, imprisoned and starved Namibians to death. This has been called the Herero and Nama genocide.

      Pretty curious his father should have given him this name.

  3. There are so many people with the name of Muhammad (or Mohammed, etc), and many of them are heinous criminals or doing genocides, so it is no big deal at all if there is another Adolf Hittler, as long as he (or she) is not doing a genocide.

  4. This Man’s Name Is Adolf Hitler, and He’s Running for Re-Election
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    Yes. I’ve heard of this thug. That he was ever elected in the first place says a lot about Namibia…

  5. Funny he is named for a man who would have consider him sub-human and exterminated if he had a chance when he was alive for his race and the place he was born .

    • What a joke his father pulled on him naming him Adolph Hitler. I’ll bet he had to fight that all his life. Of course he could have changed it if he wanted too.

  6. Bei uns hier “im besten Deutschland aller Zeiten”, Zitat von Merkel, heißt keiner mehr Adolf Hitler.
    Aber die Enkel dieser Nazis sitzen heute in der Regierung, in den Parlamenten und besetzen durch den erfolgreichen “Marsch durch die Institutionen” alle Schaltstellen der Macht.
    Das heißt dann nicht mehr Nationalsozialismus sondern UNSERE DEMOKRATIE und hat sich als Exportschlager bis nach Brüssel durchgesetzt.

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