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Among the unexpected things of this 2020 we can now also add the electoral victory of Adolf Hitler. Obviously not the German dictator himself, but his namesake, who, to make it more absurd, is African.
The choice of name
Adolf Hitler Uunona, this is the full name of the politician, he won a seat on a regional council in Oshana, Namibia, having obtained up to 85% of the vote. “My father named me after that man, but he probably didn’t understand what he was fighting for,” said Bild’s advisor, explaining: “When I was a kid I saw it as a completely normal name. Only when I was a teenager did I understand that this man wanted to conquer the world ”. A longtime member of the South West Africa People’s Organization (Swapo), a socialist-inspired party that played a major role in the struggle that began in the 1960s for the independence of the nation of South Africa, Uunona has guaranteed that it will not he will certainly be a supporter of the ideas of the Nazi dictator. “Just because he has this name does not mean that he wants to subdue Oshana. It does not mean that he is fighting for world domination, “the politician jokingly said, and further said that his wife calls him Adolf, and that he usually introduces himself as Adolf Uunona, but that he did not have time to officially change his name in sight. of the elections.
Former German colony
Namibia is a former German colony and it is common for people, places and streets to still have native German names. Once known as South West Africa from Germany, the nation was officially part of the German Empire from 1884 until the end of World War I, when all its possessions were taken from Berlin and control of the country passed to South Africa until independence achieved. in 1990 alone. An estimated 1,200 people still call themselves Hitler today, but most families changed their names after the war to hide any ties to the Nazi leader.
RESULTS: Uunona Adolf Hitler of the SWAPO party is the duly elected councilor for the Ompundja constituency.# NamVotes2020 # NamibiaVotes2020 #EagleFM pic.twitter.com/6ZQqaNctZx
– Eagle FM Namibia (@EagleFMNam) November 26, 2020
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