From the BBC, 12/3/2020:
-Adolf Hitler Uunona was elected with 85 per cent of the vote in a regional poll
-He said his father had named him Hitler without realizing what the name meant
-Former German colony in Africa still has a small German-speaking population
A politician named after Adolf Hitler has won a seat at a Namibian election - but says he has no plans for world domination.
Adolf Hitler Uunona was elected with 85 per cent of the vote in the former German colony, which is still home to a small German-speaking community and where a number of streets, places and people still bear German names.
After winning the seat on the ticket of the ruling SWAPO party - which has ruled Namibia since independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 - the politician told Bild that he had 'nothing to do with' Nazi ideology.
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Once known as German South West Africa, Namibia was a German colony from 1884 until the empire was stripped of its possessions following World War I.
The real Hitler would later use the humiliation of the post-war Treaty of Versailles as a propaganda tool to win support for the Nazis in the 1920s and 1930s.
While Germany has spent 75 painstaking years trying to atone for the war and genocide that it unleashed under Hitler's rule, its colonial atrocities in Namibia are little discussed - but pressure for reparations has been growing in recent years.
German soldiers slaughtered some 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama tribespeople in a bloody campaign to suppress a local revolt between 1904 and 1908.
The killings came after German occupiers forced native tribespeople off their land and recruited them for forced labour, leading to an uprising in which Herero people killed 123 German settlers.
