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Adolf Hitler sweeps the Namibian elections

2020-12-06T00:16:16.682Z


A politician from the African country named after the Nazi dictator gets 85% of the votes in his district in the regional elections


His name haunts him: his name is Adolf Hitler Uunona, but it is the only thing on which the new district administrator of Ompundja (northern Namibia) agrees with the Nazi dictator.

The SWAPO party politician obtained 84.88% of the votes in the regional elections on November 25.

All a success compared to the poor results that the formation, heir to an independence movement against South Africa and a member of the Socialist International, reaped in most of the country. 

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Uunona, 54, is used to being teased by name.

"That he calls me that does not mean that he now wants to subdue Oshana [the region where his district is located]," he jokingly commented to the German newspaper

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"My father gave me that name and probably did not understand what Adolf Hitler represented," he pointed out.

As a child, I did not notice the meaning.

"Growing up I already realized that he was a man who wanted to subdue the whole world and I have nothing to do with any of that."

Namibia was a German colony from 1884, at the time of Chancellor Otto von Bismark, until the South African occupation during the First World War.

German names, such as Adolf, are common among the population, although German speakers are a small minority.

"Adolf" calls him, simply, his wife, and although he tries to hide the middle name with "H.", "Hitler" appears in all official documents and the politician considers that it is already "too late" to change it.

In the former German colony, German-language street names and place names such as Lüderitz, Mariental or Helmeringhausen abound,

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The German Empire murdered thousands of people in the revolts of Nama, Herero and San groups between 1904 and 1908. The current Federal Republic of Germany has offered 10 million euros as reparation, but the Namibian Government has rejected it as insufficient, points BBC.

Profile of Adolf Hitler Uunona, from the Swapo party.

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However, the Namibian politician is not the first who, in the XXI century, attends the elections.

In 2013 elections in the Meghalaya district in northeast India, another named Adolf Lu Hitler R Marak, who had been a minister for a short time, ran.

"I am aware that at one point in history Adolf Hitler was the most hated person in the world for the genocide of the Jews, but my father added 'Lu' in the middle [of the name], and that is why I am different," he said to

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