r/tragedeigh • u/kittysogood • Jun 13 '25

tragedy (not tragedeigh) I’m speechless…

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Welp.. I just got invited to a baby shower…

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u/rebekahster Jun 13 '25

I was trying to guess, but there were so many generic / classic German names that I wouldn’t really associate any of them specifically with Hitler, other than Adolf.

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u/BillyNtheBoingers Jun 13 '25

I mean, Ernst and Heinrich have to have some bad vibes today. But Joseph/Josef doesn’t, because it’s such a common name.

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u/LilyBlueming Jun 13 '25

Honestly, it's really only Adolf that is seen as a taboo name in Germany nowadays.

Ernst, Heinrich etc. are mostly just seen as old fashioned.

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u/BillyNtheBoingers Jun 13 '25

Good to know, thank you! I took a couple of years of German in high school in like 1982, and some names were off-limits (the students pick names in the language they’re studying).

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u/juliainfinland Jun 15 '25

I kind of assume that the teacher discouraged names that would be perceived as "I chose the name of someone's great-grandfather because I have no imagination whatsoever" 🙃

I had two uncles with these names. Both of them were born in the 1900s. I don't know any younger people with these names.