Current Events > It's always awkward to run into an Adolf who was born before the 1940s.

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Like, I personally think that I would have changed my name.

There's an understated 1984 movie called A Soldier's Story about Black soldiers during World War II and the racism, external and internal, which members of the base have to put up with. The actor playing the sergeant was Adolph Caesar who was in his 50s at the time of film and sadly passed away shortly after. The character was pretty much Uncle Ruckus from The Boondocks if he was a military officer. It's a great performance, btw. Check it out if you get the chance. But, long story short, here's a Black actor named Adolph an I'm pretty sure his parents didn't name him in honor of any German tyrants. (Kanye might name his next kid after the H-man.)

There are times in pharmacy where I hear an Adolph or Adolf and my mind immediately goes to, "Oh, shit. Their parents are white supremacists." Then the person requesting the medication will list the patient's date of birth as being from the 1920s and it's like, damn, they were in middle school when that creep came to power. It does happen sometimes that young people have that name and for that reason -- child services, where are you? -- but there are times where a patient is legitimately old enough that they were given that name before it was sullied.

Most of them probably use a different name in daily life, and limit the use of their actual name to formal situations where you actually have to give your official name.

Besides that, did you know there are living relatives to Hitler? I saw a show on I think history Channel about it once. They are the grand kids of his sister I think. Or a cousin. Something like that. But they can trace their family tree to him. They live somewhere in America. But they changed their names and they all made a vow to not have kids so the bloodline dies out

My art teacher in sixth through eighth grade had the last name Adolf (might have been spelled differently, but pronounced the same) but as a child it was really weird to learn about the holocaust and immediately have a teacher named Mr. Adolf right after.

Now I don't assume very much when I hear the name outside the actual real Hitler. >.>

The college I went to had a professor named Hittler (with two t's).

I did not take any of his classes.

Thanks funny, I was just about to post something about Adolphe Sax. The guy who made the saxophone. But he was before. And has a major positive impact on the world.

Rickenbacker, ace pilot cousin. Invented electric instruments