2025-11-25 13:08:56

A politician named Adolf Hitler is cruising toward a landslide election victory in Namibia.

Adolf Hitler Uunona, 59, has been a local councillor for years, first sweeping the Ompundja constituency in 2020 with a whopping 85 per cent of the vote.

Now, with Namibia heading into local elections on November 26, he’s expected to romp back into office with another crushing majority.

Uunona – who normally drops the “Hitler” part in public – says his father simply had no idea the name was attached to one of history’s darkest figures.

“As a child I saw it as totally normal,” he once told German outlet Bild. “Only as a teenager did I understand this man wanted to conquer the world.”

He insists it’s too big a hassle to change his name now, with the words stamped across decades of official documents.

Despite the unsettling déjà vu his ballot papers may cause abroad, locals know him as a former anti-apartheid activist and a hardworking member of Namibia’s ruling Swapo party – not a tyrant-in-waiting.

“That I have this name doesn’t mean I want to subjugate Oshana now,” he joked.

Namibia’s colonial past means German names are still common, but Uunona’s has naturally attracted global gawkers – especially after a random car sporting “Adolf Hitler” and a swastika was spotted in his region in 2020.

He swiftly confirmed it wasn’t his.

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