A politician named after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has been elected to a seat in Namibia. Adolf Hitler Uunona - representing the southern African country's ruling SWAPO party - received 85 percent of the vote, but insists he has "nothing to do with" the ideologies of one of the most evil men in history.
His constituency remains home to a small German-speaking community, while multiple street names and places still have German names.
Uunona said his wife calls him Adolf and it's "too late" to officially change his name. He said: "My father named me after this man.
He probably didn't understand what Adolf Hitler stood for." Speaking to German newspaper Bild he added: "As a child I saw it as a totally normal name.
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