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Well, you have a fair point there. I may have been generalizing this case due to my own disbelief at the time. In this particular case, I also met his mother, who conceived him at the age of thirteen. She didn't know a lot about Hitler at the time or what he did (I think). But you're right that she may have been influenced by anti colonial sentiments when she named him, back in the 60s. New insight, thanks for that.
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Um, no. A lot of people in Asia know who Hitler was. In a large part of Asia, Hitler is seen by many people as the enemy of hated colonialists (Germany's attempt at colonialism having failed to get far and Nazi Germany's alliance with imperialist Japan not really registering, for whatever reason). We might see the perspective as skewed, but then much of Asia would respond with "Um, about this Churchill guy that you all seem to like so much..."