A man named Adolf Hitler Uunona has won a local election in Namibia, according to a Thursday report from The Independent.
Uunona, who represents the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), became a councilor in the Ompundja Constituency, after beating his opponent by 1,196 votes to 213.
In a statement supplied to the German tabloid Bild, Uunona said that his father named him Adolf Hitler without realizing the connotations of the name.
“As a child I saw it as a totally normal name. Only as a teenager did I understand that this man wanted to conquer the whole world.”
Uunona explained that he normally goes by Adolf and said that the fact he is named after the leader of the Nazi Party “doesn’t mean I’m striving for world domination.”
Namibia, a small country in southwest Africa, was a German colony between 1884 and 1915. Germany lost control of the territory following their defeat in WWI, after which Namibia came under South African rule.
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