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Adolf Hitler-The Name
The following is
a News item which appeared in the Indian
Express of 29th Sept 1998.
"Lets face it
. If your surname happens to be Hitler and your parenst christen you as
Adolf, life is not going to easy.
But a retired
Austrian truck driver quoted in a German Newspaper on Sunday as saying
he never changed his name out of Respect for his mother and Father.
I often thought
my life would be lot easier if I had another name, 60 year old Adolf Hitler
told Welt
Am Sonntag newspaper.
No one ever believed
him that his name was Adolf Hitler.. I get anonymous calls in the middle
of the night from people who say 'Heil Hitler' or 'we have someone here
for the gas chamber', he said. But I never chaged it because I am proud
of my parents.
Hitler was attending
a conference for people with infamous names" in Braunau, an Austrian town
just across border from
Geramany.
He said his name
once cost him a construction job at a dam project in Austria. An engineer
asked the workers their names. "The first one answered 'Tony Sailer', the
same as the famous skier. And when he got to me I said'I am Adolf Hitler'
and he threw us all out.'
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