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A politician named Adolf Hitler won a seat in Namibia’s regional elections and says he does not dream of taking over the world.
Adolf Hitler Uunona was elected with 85% of the vote in the former German colony, where many streets, places, and people still have German names. After winning the regional council seat on the lists of the ruling SWAPO party, the politician became more famous than expected by name. He told the German publication Bild that “it had nothing to do with Nazi ideology.”
“My father baptized me after this man. He probably didn’t understand what Adolf Hitler meant.”said the Namibian politician.
“When I was a boy, I saw it as an absolutely normal name. Only in adolescence did I understand that this man wanted to conquer the whole world.”added.
The politician said that his wife calls him Adolf and that he usually introduces himself to Adolf Uunona. At one point he thought of changing his name, but it was “too late”.
„Just because she has this name doesn’t mean she wants to win over Oshana. “he said, referring to the region in which he won the elections.
Uunona obtained 1,196 votes in the last elections, compared to 213, as his opponent, and reached the regional council.
His SWAPO party won 57% of the vote nationwide, a sharp drop from 83% in 2015.
German history of Namibia
Namibia was a German colony from 1884 until after the First World War. The real Hitler later used the postwar “humiliation” of the Versailles Treaty as a propaganda tool to win support for the Nazis in the 1920s and 1930s.
Hitler’s genocide during World War II has long overshadowed German atrocities in Namibia, but pressure for reparations has mounted in recent years. German soldiers executed some 75,000 members of a tribe in a bloody campaign to quell a mutiny between 1904 and 1908. Last year, a German government minister described the massacre as genocide during a visit to the African country.
A small German-speaking community still lives in the country today and around 120,000 Germans visit Namibia each year.
The German government says it has a “special responsibility” for Namibia “because of the common colonial past.”
Publisher: DC
