In message 1e2.134dae0d.2ce49f32@aol.com, daniwo59-YDxpq3io04c@public.gmane.org writes
As for Adolf/Adolf Hitler, there are two reason that it would be spelled with ph--1) the person spelling it is using the English, rather than the German, version of the name,
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Correcting you just to be pedantic, but in English the Adolf/Adolph distinction seems to be a transatlantic thing. I have never seen "Adolph" used in any document originating in the UK.
That said, I'd certainly have no objection to the variant spelling being noted.