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Adolf Hitler Uunona, a Namibian politician who shares his name with the infamous Nazi dictator, won re-election for his local seat for the fifth time in a row, according to Euro News. The 59-year-old cruised to re-election despite his unfortunate name and has no plan to change it. The local pol said he usually goes by Adolf Uunona in daily life and argued it’s too late to formally change his name. “It’s in all official documents. It’s too late for that,” he told German newspaper Bild in 2020. Uunona, a member of the ruling SWAPO party, kept his seat as...

Don't be alarmed, but Adolf Hitler is back and he just won re-election this week — in landslide fashion, no less. No, not that Adolf Hitler. He's been dead a really long time. This is Adolf Hitler Uunona, a Namibian politician who is overwhelmingly popular, regardless of his attention-grabbing name. The New York Post had additional details: The 59-year-old cruised to re-election despite his unfortunate name and has no plan to change it. The local pol said he usually goes by Adolf Uunona in daily life and argued it's too late to formally change his name. 'It's in all official...

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 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...