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A local administrator in Namibia, Adolf Hitler Uunona, who bears the name of the infamous Nazi dictator, has said before that it is “too late” to change him.
But now “African Hitler” has been forced to work from home by a coronavirus outbreak in his area.
The regional administrator told the media that he is working from home since the increase in cases of infection in the northern region of Oshana.
He added that the authorities were disinfecting all the premises of the city council, including Hitler’s office.
The official was so named by his father but was elected to the post with 85 per cent of the vote in last year’s elections, for regional councils in Namibia.
Namibia was formerly known as “Southwest German Africa” and still has many German names, but Uunona claims his father knew nothing about Hitler’s actions.
Uunona, of the ruling SWAPO party, told the German daily Bild: “My father gave me that man’s name, but he probably did not know what it meant.”
“When I was a child it was a very normal name for me. “When I became a teenager I realized that this man wanted to rule the world.”
The politician usually uses the name Adolf Uunona, and says it is already too late to change it.
He says: “The fact that I have this name does not mean that I want to rule in Oshana, it does not mean that I want to dominate the world.”
Namibia still has a small German-speaking community and is visited annually by about 120,000 Germans.
There are about 30,000 German-Namibians in the country known as ‘Deutschnamibier’ and they have even created their own flag for special events.
About 0.9 percent of Namibians speak German as their first language, according to a 2011 census.
The German government has previously said it has a “special responsibility” to Namibia from its “common colonial past”.
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