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The mayor of the German town of Bad Toelz, Germany, is angry with Google Earth for its reference to a nearby "Mount Hitler". The official name for the 1,205 metre peak near the Bavarian town is Heigelkopf. But for a short time during the Third Reich it was named Mount Hitler. The municipality of Wackersberg, like many other …

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  1. Lee Humphries

    How about misnaming whole countries?

    Google Earth still insists on calling the Solomon Islands "Soloman Islands".

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  2. Ironfrost

    Not the first time

    This isn't the first time something like this has happened. Earlier this year there was a lot of trouble because Google used colonial-era Japanese names for some places in Shenyang, in North East China. Chinese internet users weren't particularly happy about it.

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