"H" as in Hitler?

Ok, so Hillel calls a potential out sourcing company to see about hiring some developers for a project. They have a CA base office and the number we called reached a person from India. Since it was 2:00am CA time, we figued it was someone from their office in India. In anycase the person who answered had a very thick accent and it was hard to understand him. When we finally got to quoting the project Hillel asked if he could send it to him by Email. So he asked what his Email address was. So Hillel gave him the adress and the guy starts spelling it back to him to make sure he has it right and he said and I quote "H as in Hitler?"

Now Hillel was too shocked and just finished the conversation.

Now I don't have to many Indian friends or associates, but is Hitler a common Indian name? Perhaps he could have used a couple of more common "H" words like:

House

Home

Horse

Heck,even Hell would have been better.