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Originally Posted by eladrimar
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74 years, that name will always have a stigma, I mean after 6 million Jewish people died and 3% of the world population died, its hard for a name to beat that dark cloud.
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There is a Japanese restaurant in the mall by me named Tojo's Kitchen...nobody seems to care. Most don't even connect it to WW2.
Adolf is very rare in Germany (along with most of its other European language equivalents), although it was common before WWII so there are still some very old men with the name.
I don't think it will come back any time soon...there was too heavy a stigma and now there just aren't many people who would have someone they love to name a kid Adolf after.
The connotation is still strong too, but I don't think the stigma will survive another century.