No cake for young Hitler

The consequences of naming your child after Nazi despots

Plenty of parents “hang atrocious names on their offspring, cursing them for life,” said Ed Morrissey in Hot Air, but New Jersey’s Heath and Deborah Campbell take the cake. At least they wanted to. But their local ShopRite wouldn’t make them a birthday cake inscribed with the name of their son, Adolf Hitler Campbell, 3. The Nazi admirer dad now demands tolerance. “It sounds like a Monty Python skit: No one expects the Nazi Tolerance Inquisition!

The story does sound “too good to be true, like a below-average Onion article or an above-average Saturday Night Live sketch,” said Jacob Sullum in Reason. But the swastika-touting Campbells—including daughters JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, almost 2, and infant Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell—are real. The question is, are they mentally ill or just idiots?

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