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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAdolf Hitler Wins Election in Namibia, Has No Plans for World Domination
(yes, for real, not the Onion, actual headline)
https://www.newsweek.com/adolf-hitler-germany-namibia-elections-1552056
A politician named Adolf Hitler has won a regional election in Namibia.
Adolf Hitler Uunona has been elected with 85 percent of the vote for a seat on the regional council in the former German colony, where street names, people and places still have German names. However, Adolf Uunona as he prefers himself to be known, says he wants to assure people that he has no plans for world domination.
He told German tabloid paper Bild: "My father named me after this man. He probably didn't understand what Adolf Hitler stood for. As a child I saw it as a totally normal name. Only as a teenager did I understand that this man wanted to conquer the whole world."
He appears on the election nomination list as Adolf H. Uunona. He won the seat on the ticket of the ruling SWAPO party which has ruled Namibia since independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990. He also said that while his wife calls him Adolf, it would be too late for him to change his name officially.
Adolf Hitler Uunona has been elected with 85 percent of the vote for a seat on the regional council in the former German colony, where street names, people and places still have German names. However, Adolf Uunona as he prefers himself to be known, says he wants to assure people that he has no plans for world domination.
He told German tabloid paper Bild: "My father named me after this man. He probably didn't understand what Adolf Hitler stood for. As a child I saw it as a totally normal name. Only as a teenager did I understand that this man wanted to conquer the whole world."
He appears on the election nomination list as Adolf H. Uunona. He won the seat on the ticket of the ruling SWAPO party which has ruled Namibia since independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990. He also said that while his wife calls him Adolf, it would be too late for him to change his name officially.
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Adolf Hitler Wins Election in Namibia, Has No Plans for World Domination (Original Post)
steve2470
Dec 2020
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Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)1. For now............. nt
marble falls
(57,081 posts)2. Today Namimbia, tomorrow Swaziland. It's a vicious circle.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)3. bump for am crowd nt