ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Namibian politician Adolf Hitler Uunona is anticipated to win a second local election, after he received 85% of the votes during the 2020 elections.

Serving on a regional council, the 59-year-old Swapo party member is anticipated to continue holding the favor of the majority of local voters in the Ompundja constituency.

German dictator-inspired name and Berlin's history in Namibia

While he admitted to German newspaper Bild several years ago that his father had named him after the infamous genocidal German dictator, he claimed, "He probably didn't understand what Adolf Hitler stood for. As a child, I saw it as a totally normal name."

As Namibia was a German colony from 1884 to 1915, Germanic names are common there.

circa 1940: Hitler with Eva Braun, his supposed wife, photographed with their dogs at Berchtesgaden.
circa 1940: Hitler with Eva Braun, his supposed wife, photographed with their dogs at Berchtesgaden. (credit: Keystone/Getty Images)

"It wasn't until I was growing up that I realized: This man wanted to subjugate the whole world. I have nothing to do with any of these things," he said.

Who was Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party and ruled Germany as chancellor from 1933 and head of state from 1934 to 1945. He established a totalitarian regime that dismantled democratic institutions, repressed political opponents, and propagated racist, antisemitic ideology.

Under Hitler, Germany pursued aggressive expansion that began with the remilitarization of the Rhineland and the annexations of Austria and the Sudetenland. The invasion of Poland in September 1939 started World War II in Europe, drawing multiple nations into a global conflict.

The Nazi regime implemented the Holocaust, the systematic state-sponsored murder of six million Jews, alongside mass atrocities against Romani people, Poles, Soviet civilians and prisoners of war, people with disabilities, LGBTQ individuals, and other targeted groups. These crimes were carried out through ghettos, mass shootings, forced labor, and extermination camps.

As the Allies closed in on Berlin in 1945, Hitler remained in the city and died by suicide on April 30, 1945. Germany surrendered shortly after on May 8, 1945. The postwar Nuremberg Trials prosecuted senior Nazi officials for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and waging aggressive war.