Do they serve Death to the Jews! brand potato chips?
Count me as another who doesn’t immediately associate “Adolfo” with Adolf Hitler. Yes, it’s clearly the same name another languauge, but my first association would probably be the designer, and up until now, I never connected the designer’s name to Hitler.
Now that I’ve read the OP, if a friend named Adolfo asked me if I thought he should name his restaurant “Adolfo’s,” I’d let him know that there might be a few people out there who migt associate the name with Hitler. Before this, I would have just said “sounds good.” The Hitler thing would not have crossed my mind, and I’m Jewish, even.
I knew a few Adolfos who are pretty young (born in the late 1980s) in Mexico; it doesn’t have that stigma there. Being in the US, though, I imagine the owner has heard something about this connection, to which he probably replied: “Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.”
On a more mundane and pointless note, I am glad that bienville includes us Latinos in “western civilization.” Not everyone extends us that courtesy.
Well sure. But we are not talking about seeing Adolf. We are talking about a different language’s version of Adolf. My mind just doesn’t go there automatically. Anymore than I think Benito when I see Benedict or Josef when I see Eat at Joe’s.
A lot of people with the last name Hitler did change their name after WWII. I could see why you would be shocked if a restaurant named “Hitler’s” opened up. Or maybe even if it was a German/Austrian restaurant using the name Adolf.
However, I don’t think that anyone here but you would assume a Mexican restaurant using a variation of Adolf was referring to Nazis.
I got Domínguez, a different designer (might be Spanish by the name, learned his trade in France and works in New York), more Domínguez, Suárez (recently deceased former Spanish president), pics of a priest and other pics of a young dude in leather and too much skin, another clothing designer (or maybe the previous one out of NY), yet a different clothing designer (American, Hispanic), a serial killer, a restaurant in New Orleans, the aforementioned Adolfo Guzmán López, and a Sicilian actor.
Conclusion: if you don’t want your kid to be a fashion designer, don’t name him Adolfo.
Most of the Latino countries stayed out of World War Two.
Mexico sent some troops, and one air force squadron, but their main contribution was economic.
Cuba’s dictator was more antagonistic to Franco than to Hitler.
Brazil’s dictator was afraid of being overthrown by disgruntled veterans, so he dispersed veteran soldiers to remote outposts, and forbade civilian veterans from wearing uniform or decorations.
Culturally, the war had less impact on Latin America than on the Anglophone countries.
To be fair, there was little that most of them could have contributed.
Both Brazil and Mexico joined in response to attacks on their own flagged merchant vessels. Brazil had a the largest Latin American participation during WW2 with division-level land forces as well as sea operations engaging the enemy with heavy casualties in Europe and the Atlantic. Mexico mostly provided support for the US to secure the Gulf, and an Air Force squadron was deployed to the Pacific and fought and took casualties in the Philippines campaign.
Panama (as if they had a choice), Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Cuba and Guatemala joined in declaring war on the Axis in December 1941 as part of their military treaties with the USA. None was in any position to project any force anywhere, their joining in served to provide denial of ports and trade to the Axis and allow the US to operate freely from bases in their territory.
Mexico and Brazil, who did deploy fighting units to the fronts, followed in Spring and Summer of 1942. Bolivia and Colombia in 1943, Peru in early 1944; again, biggest effect was removal of trade and safe havens. Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Venezuela, Argentina and Chile only formally declared war on the Axis in 1945, mostly so that they would not be out of place among the UN charter members.
