During the Nazi invasion, a lot of Jewish sounding alphabets and phonetics had been replaced by Hitler’s men to resemble Nazi-like pronunciation, some common examples being “D for David”, “N for Nathan” and “Z for Zacharias” to Dora, North Pole and Zeppelin. Their use has since continued with most Germans unaware of their anti-Semitic origin.
“Jacob” for the letter “J” and “Samuel” for “S”, which became “Julius” and “Siegfried” are the other Jewish names removed by the Nazis in 1934.
A few Nazi references were, replaced post World War Two.
The job of devising new terms for the problematic letters now lies with the German Institute for Standardization (DIN). Notably, this is not a recent move, since the past few years have seen multiple pleas for fighting anti-Semitism.
The memory of the anti-Semitic list will be presented as an annex to the new list which will be put to public consultation next year. The new German list is expected to be adopted in late 2022.
DIN spokesman Julian Pinnig said choosing new personal names would be more problematic than German town or city names because the choice of personal names might not reflect the nation’s ethnic diversity today.
(Source: BBC)