Leonardo haberkorn hitler biography
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Hitler lives in Uruguay. Yes. In this eastern republic of South America lives a Hitler Aguirre and a Hitler da Silva. There’s Hitler Pereira and Hitler Edén Ganoso. There’s even a Hitler de los Santos—”of the Saints.” Though only six such names appear in the national phone book, it’s hard to know how many other Hitlers have a phone or how many prefer to be listed under different names in order to avoid being misjudged or mocked. To be called by the surname of the perpetrator of the worst genocide of the twentieth century—that is, Hitler—wouldn’t that give one cause for shame?
“No one knows that’s my name,” Luis Ytler Diotti confesses over the phone. He keeps his middle name a family secret, as his father advised him when he was a child. Everyone knows him as Luis, period.
Hitler Pereira’s case is similar: those who know him call him Waldemar, his middle name. His son, who picks up the phone, refuses to connect me to his father: there’s nothing to talk about.
Juan Hitler Porley declines to be photographed: “I’m don’t want to advertise this,” he says, distrustfully.
I interviewed Hitler de los Santos in 1996, when he had already begun the process of changing his name. It seems he succeeded, because it’s now impossible to find him in the phone book.
But there are those who
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A Nazi raptor inflames a heated altercation in Uruguay
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