Adolf Hitler Gets No Love (or Cake)

By Alex in Baby & Kids, Food & Drink on Dec 17, 2008 at 7:10 pm

Heath and Deborah Campbell wanted a birthday cake for their son, but a local supermarket refused their order because of the boy’s name: Adolf Hitler!

Deborah Campbell, 25, of nearby Hunterdon County, N.J., said she phoned in her order last week to the Greenwich ShopRite. When she told the bakery department she wanted her son’s name spelled out, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request.

Karen Meleta, a ShopRite spokeswoman, said the store denied similar requests from the Campbells the last two years, including a request for a swastika.

"We reserve the right not to print anything on the cake that we deem to be inappropriate," Meleta said. "We considered this inappropriate."

Why did they choose that name?

Heath Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because "no one else in the world would have that name."

The Campbells’ two other children are named JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, who turns 2 in a few months, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, who will be 1 in April.

Campbell said he was raised not to avoid people of other races but not to mix with them socially or romantically. But he said he would try to raise his children differently.

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(Photo: Rich Schultz/AP)


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  1. Geekazoid
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    Attention hogs.

  2. nick
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

    thats just silly

  3. Lydia
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

    Poor kids. They don’t stand a chance.

  4. Justin
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 7:40 pm

    If you named the kid Adolf for other reasons that should be fine. But then I read the ending and that she had asked for a cake with a swastika on it before…

    Yeah I’m siding with the Bakery here.

  5. Cathy
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 7:45 pm

    And now we will get to hear about those kids three times a year, every year, near their birthdays…and of course when they start school…and then when the lawsuits are filed by the parents…and then when the kids get older and have their own agendas and start their own families of hate.
    Hitler, Hinler and Aryan Nation…nah, not deliberate at all. Just a name.

  6. Johnny Cat
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 7:45 pm

    See, this is one of many reasons we need to require licenses to procreate. You need to grow up before you have kids of your own, because that’s a huge responsibility. Saying he’ll have the only name like it is just immature.

  7. Reechard
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    looks like my little Charles Manson Beelzebub John Edward Damn Hippie Jr. isn’t going to fair so well in the outside world

  8. Katie
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 7:54 pm

    I’m assuming that when he says he’s going to try to raise his children differently he means that he’ll be raising them to AVOID people of other races, not try to raise them to mix socially and romantically. Because if I were anyone but white, I’d stay far far away from Hitler, Aryan Nation and Hinler. You know what? I am white and I’ll still be staying far away from them.

  9. sigh
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    Those. Parents. Are. Stupid.

    Gawd, if I were their kids, I’d be trying to legally change my name ASAP. And get out of the house.

  10. twoeightnine
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    I’m not racist I just believe that whites are the superior race and we should crush all others…

    (not me, him)

  11. Mouserz
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    And now for something completely different, A Man With Three Buttocks Campbell.

  12. Ashman
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    How could you possibly like the name “Adolf Hitler” and NOT think that you’d have numerous issues with it? It’s parents like these that, frankly, should NOT be parents at all…

  13. phinneas
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

    How can these parents get upset when people react in the way that they obviously want them to react? No one names their child Adolf Hitler and expects people to be alright with it.

    I hate them.

  14. Nicholas Dollak
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 9:10 pm

    Of course he’ll be the only kid stuck with that name. No sane person would give their child that name. On top of that, they’re still promoting the divisive (and scientifically groundless) concept of “race” and making it a part of their children’s upbringing. Yeah, they may find some like-minded people, but, boy are they all going to be viewed as bigoted relics of an embarrassing chapter of human history in a couple of decades. (Well, I already see them as such. I’m sure more people will do so in time.)

    Even Hitler’s own children changed their names.

  15. Geekazoid
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    Oh they knew it would be controversial. In this day and age I would not be surprised if this was a calculated move to get media attention. Look at how they are smiling for the camera. They are trying to milk their 15 minutes, and sad that they are using their kids for this need for fame.

  16. Patricio
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

    Congrats, New Jersey!

  17. Patricio
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 9:19 pm

    I mean, Pennsylvania.

  18. Greengirl
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 9:22 pm

    The fact that the parents feel that they are the victims is rather shocking. I feel terrible for those children

  19. SparkS
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    I am far from one that believes government should be in every aspect of my life. Far from it. But I agree with Johnny Cat. Not only that, no welfare for the baby factory women that pop out bastards every 9 months so I as a taxpayer can support them. I think child services needs to put all three of those children in foster homes. They deserve much better. If the children are harmed physically the law can get involved. If the children are harmed psychologically it’s just “oh well.” Doesn’t seem right. The parents are obviously nut cases. I’m surprised not one of the previous comments mentioned CWS getting involved.

  20. sam
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    Don’t act offended when you name your kid Adolf Hitler and people treat you different. I wouldn’t serve the kid either, and I might just euthanize the parents.

  21. clifford
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 10:02 pm

    White supremacists still stupid. News at 11.

  22. SenorMysterioso
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

    poor kids

  23. PancakeMan
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    A relative needs to get the parents declared mentally handicapped, take the children, and give them decent names.

    What I like best is that they’ll want their children to be proud of their names someday, and that will just lead to more trouble. For instance, they’ll never be able to travel to Europe, unless they enjoy getting hanged from the nearest lightpole.

  24. Xinavera
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    I don’t say this often about this blog, but…

    Not Neat. Horrifying.

  25. George
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    Forrest Gump would say, “Stupid is as stupid does”.

  26. mikos
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    Aryan Nation… Hmm… Is this Iran or something???

  27. BartC3
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    …you know who else loved cake?

  28. Saskplanner
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    Boy. They should both be sterilized.

  29. Coco
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 11:29 pm

    They should have followed the logic associated with the “nigga” debate…a once inappropriate word made socially acceptable by changing “er” to simply “a” and called their son “Adolf Hitla”

  30. JustinButNotTHATJustin
    Dec 17th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

    One would think such a loving lesbian couple wouldn’t name their children with such divisive names.

  31. Woogie
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 12:40 am

    “Tonight, on Shagwits with Kids…”

  32. Vagabond
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 1:02 am

    Maybe “Hinler” was supposed to be “Himmler”, the head of the SS?

  33. Muppetmaker
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 1:18 am

    I wanted to get Mein Kampf quotes on my birthday cake. Walmart refused.

  34. PJ
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 1:25 am

    Seriously, such people should be banned from having kids. Poor kids have to live with their moronic parents insensitivity. I hope they grow up and give them a serious lashing.

  35. i hate racists
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 1:49 am

    Ridiculous. DHS should come get those crazy peoples kids.

  36. Kaz
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 4:12 am

    Wow, those parents are complete morons. Can you really name your child whatever you want there? If you try something like that in EU not only you will not be allowed to do it, but you would also risk your kids be taken away from you.

  37. ted
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 6:13 am

    Who’s Hinler?

    Nobody puts a kid’s full name on a cake, anyway. I’m sure if they went with “Adolph”, they’d get away with it.

    Kids will either change his name and rebel, or he’ll be treated so poorly in life, he’ll become as messed up as his parents. Sad.

  38. ted
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 6:15 am

    And I doubt people of any race are lining up to mix with these people socially or romantically.

  39. Guybrush Threepwood
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 6:31 am

    This is just… stupid.

  40. Skipweasel
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 6:54 am

    I’m not a religious person, but from time to time the bible has just the right phrase for things.

    As you sow, so shall you reap.

  41. Evilbeagle
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 8:20 am

    I agree with those who have said that these idiots should have never been allowed to procreate. I would feel more sorry for the kids with these horrific names, but they are going to grow up to be just as hateful and disgusting as their effed up parents.

    If I worked at the bakery, I would have been fired on the spot because after politely telling them to stuff it, as they rightly did, I would have gone off on these people in every language I know.

  42. Aaron
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 9:00 am

    I LOL’d @ JustinButNotTHATJustin

  43. el cad
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 9:16 am

    “The Campbells ultimately got their cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said Tuesday.”

    Damn you Wal-Mart.

  44. LisaL
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 9:28 am

    Mentally retarded people shouldn’t be able to have kids…..

    There are just some people out there that do not deserve to have children and it sickens me knowing that good decent people can’t while the crap of this world can.

  45. Rhea
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    My question is, should we really allow heterosexual couples to raise children?

  46. Monica
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 9:48 am

    “Campbell said he was raised not to avoid people of other races but not to mix with them socially or romantically. But he said he would try to raise his children differently”

    …to exterminate people of other races, and not just avoid them, presumably

  47. Byrd Brain
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 10:05 am

    No surprise that Wal Mart was willing to do the cake. No surprise at all.

    How I fear for these kids.

  48. Gauldar
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 10:11 am

    Rhea, I say all people need to do a course and get a licence to raise children, and should have needed to for a very long time. I’d rather 2 gay university graduates raise kids then these 2 human atrocities.

  49. DB
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 10:39 am

    “Heath Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because “no one else in the world would have that name.”"

    Yeah, know one, you know, except for HITLER.

  50. Leif
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 10:51 am

    Can you imagine this poor kid going through customs in Germany as an adult? actaully, in ANY COUNTRY?
    And we all know how New Jersey white supremacists love travelling abroad…

  51. Disgusted
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    These two people are disgusting. Ohh, we just liked the names. Yes and we also like the symbol of the swastika! The fact this was a piece of news is giving these animals “fame” for their immaturity. I side with the bakery and would honestly tell that couple…. don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!

  52. Christophe
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    We’re not born equals. Some will be rich, some will be hungry, some will study, some will be sick…
    Those ones will be born with a huge handicap : twisted education.

  53. PseudoPoet
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    Okay, it’s uncool for them not to make a cake because of the kid’s name…

    But you kind of have to expect those things if you name your kid Adolf Hitler. There’s a reason nobody else in the world has it.

  54. Evilbeagle
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    Even Hitler’s few surviving relatives decided never to procreate.

  55. cnidaria
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    I’m not trying to start trouble, so don’t be mad with me, but this is pretty funny.

    “See, this is one of many reasons we need to require licenses to procreate. ”

    “It’s parents like these that, frankly, should NOT be parents at all…”

    “I might just euthanize the parents.”

    “Boy. They should both be sterilized.”

    “Seriously, such people should be banned from having kids. ”

    “I agree with those who have said that these idiots should have never been allowed to procreate. ”

    “Mentally retarded people shouldn’t be able to have kids…..
    There are just some people out there that do not deserve to have children and it sickens me knowing that good decent people can’t while the crap of this world can.”

    “Rhea, I say all people need to do a course and get a licence to raise children, and should have needed to for a very long time.”

    eu?gen?ics [yoo-jen-iks] –noun (used with a singular verb) the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, esp. by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics).

  56. melinda
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    as described by cnidaria…. eugenics was, initially, the basis of the Nazi racial movement. The origins of the entire eugenics movement started in the USA. I agree that these people are idiots, but I’d be careful what you say.

  57. samlive
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    if we all just look the other way and pretend they arent there, they’ll vanish.

    for cereal.

  58. Granturista
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    Guess who’s coming to dinner – the remake.
    “Son, we were expecting Eva Brown,
    not that brown Eva”

  59. Lenny
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    If she’s 25, I’m Brad Pitt.

  60. samlive
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    also, we all know that stupid ugly people make the most babies in the country. its an unfortunate fact.

  61. SparkS
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    LisaL
    “Mentally retarded people shouldn’t be able to have kids…..”

    I spent 20 years in the navy so very little if anything surprises me. Your comment is extremely troubling. Not to mention totally ignorant. If I had the power I’d make sure YOU never have children. The Nazi’s not only murdered millions of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and others. They also killed untold numbers of those they considered to be unfit to live much less have children. People called “mentally retarded”. Perhaps you would try and educate yourself before you open your mouth with such filth. Thousands, nay millions of Americans are mentally retarded in some form or other. That does NOT mean they cannot and will not be loving and caring parents that will raise their children to be fine citizens. You madam are a disgrace and disgust me!

    “There are just some people out there that do not deserve to have children” I would say your parents were two of them.

    “and it sickens me knowing that good decent people can’t while the crap of this world can.” It’s obvious you are not in the former group but in the latter one.

    samlive
    “also, we all know that stupid ugly people make the most babies in the country. its an unfortunate fact.”
    Since you are obviously hopelessly stupid I won’t waste my time trying to educate you.

  62. Ruzanna
    Dec 18th, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    poor little Adolf Hitler will face so many failures, rejection and hate during his life. his parents thought only about their ideas while giving the name, they did not think of their baby. they do not deserve the right to have babies.

  63. liphttam1
    Dec 19th, 2008 at 7:02 am

    Saying he will be the only one to have that name, True
    Saying he likes it False.

    Wasn’t this little munchkin on neatorama before?

  64. DOJ
    Dec 19th, 2008 at 8:12 am

    Reclaiming “taboo” words should be done in baby-steps

  65. MonkeyPoop
    Dec 21st, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    Ignorant people do not deserve the press of being denied a cake from a bakery. They knowingly named their children with racism to draw attention to themselves to help spread their hate. The media shouldn’t continue to indulge that, nor should neatorama.

  66. Vim
    Jan 16th, 2009 at 3:03 am

    they’re loving the attention now, really.

  67. Name (required)
    Sep 12th, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    Darn! And I was going to name my kid Achmed Barack Hitler Stalin Bush Cheney Bin Ladin Obama. They took my idea! Lol. These people should be castrated, and the kids should be re-named and sent to a different family. No, never mind. They should all be deported to some stinking hell-hole of a country.

  68. FTN
    Apr 23rd, 2010 at 4:15 am

    you wanna know why no one else in the whole wide world would ever have that name ? because NORMAL parents don’t name their children after men who polluted the minds of millions of germans (from some peoples point of views condeming them all to hell) and murdered millions of jewish (children included) for no reason at all. i feel sorry for this kid because he’s been cursed with the name of a guy who would have to be the single most hated person in the history of FOREVER :(


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