The name coming from HISTory on STERoids. When I checked the name I found only a beetle and part of the Danube called "Hister".

I'll be honest I wouldn't blame OP for not finding this (I found a species of hister beetle before anything to do with Hitler)

I feel this is a weird spin on the "Clicks to Hitler" game

I've been on site site for years. I created an account just to comment on this thread. Holy crap, the only time I've ever heard 'Hister' was in a book I read on Nostradamus like 30 years ago.

Yep. I think I know which book you are thinking of. Maybe a search assistant programmed in Go could be named Go-ring! You know, short for "go" and "webring".

I was not using Wikipedia to get there. This is something I immediately recognized from research about World War II and possible prophetic fulfillment. I definitely wasn't playing a game when I came across this information either, but I get your drift.

Interestingly, when I searched "hister" on English Wikipedia, I was sent to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube#Names_and_etymology

Where it says that “Hister” is a variant of its Latin name.

I think the name is lovely with no reason to change. Surely there are few people who would connect this with silly medieval superstition. Perhaps you can take part in wiping out that association.

I didn't know this link. But, I immediately read Hitler when I saw it. Coming back days later... Nope brain still reads Hitler.

It's a terrible choice of name

I too read it that way. I think that the problem is in the shape of the word being too similar.

Unlike say Hipster with the descender on the p.