posted January 14, 2009 07:13 PM         

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Neither parent works because of illness - Mr Campbell, 35, a landscape gardener, suffers from the lung disease, emphysema, while his 25-year-old wife has been unable to work as a waitress in a fast-food restaurant for several years because of back problems, she says.

Adolf is named after the WWII-era Nazi dictator, while his younger sister Aryan, who will turn two in February, is named after the Nazi ideal of a 'master race', Mr Campbell said.

The eight-months-old baby of the family is named after Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS.

Mr Campbell, who says he has German ancestry, said he was raised to believe that people of different races should not mix socially, or be in relationships together.

But he said he was not a racist.

He added: "I'm not a neo-Nazi. I have my beliefs and I have my experiences. My experience has been that other races have been rude to me in the past.

"I don't believe that people [races] should mix or have children together. But that doesn't mean my children will feel the same way. If they want to hang out with black kids, then so be it."

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Gee, one wonders why people of other races would be "rude" to him when he believes the things he does & has no qualms about advertising the fact, and is against the idea of mixing with other races anyway?

So many other things they said (I didn't quote all of it) were just plain ignorant...like Hitler himself didn't match the Aryan ideal, Germany today is far more condemning of the name Hitler and anything smacking of supporting the Nazi ideology (to the point that it's a serious crime out there to like even have a Nazi flag), the swastika is an ancient religious symbol the Nazis adopted (as opposed to a mere "work of art" or "symbol of hate"), and this family is hardly the kind that Hitler and his group would want to showcase as to why Aryans were of "the master race."

(ETA: in Germany, you can't even be buried with a Nazi flag!)

IIRC, people with disabilities like theirs were generally gotten rid of as unfit, especially back then when medical science was notably less able to deal with these problems.

posted January 14, 2009 07:28 PM         

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I can't wait until those kids enter their rebellious stage

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posted January 14, 2009 08:36 PM         

"I think people need to take their heads out of the cloud they've been in and start focusing on the future and not on the past,"

Is it me, or is the irony just lost on these people?

posted January 14, 2009 08:56 PM         

MVM - clearly they have a different vision of what the future entails to other people.

posted January 14, 2009 08:58 PM         

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Emphysema and back problems. Between them, how do they manage to have sex or reproduce?

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**edit**
Some really great comments on the article here -- I burst out laughing at a few of them
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2008/dec/17/adolf-hitler-birthday-new-jersey

(sample: "Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because "no one else in the world would have that name."
Thats true, however may I suggest they call their next kid My Parents Are Red Neck Morons as it hits the mark & I doubt anyone else is called that either.

a couple more, I couldn't resist
Can I be the first to offer a donation to a fund to have these idiots sterilised before they do more harm.

posted January 14, 2009 09:07 PM         

Ah, to be a fly on the wall!

posted January 14, 2009 11:18 PM         

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Emphysema and back problems. Between them, how do they manage to have sex or reproduce?

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posted January 15, 2009 09:19 AM         

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i mean, absolutely no offense to my other American friends who think highly about their heritage, but Europeans think they are nothing but American.

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posted January 15, 2009 09:41 AM         

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And he says he may one day move his family to Germany, where he believes the kids' names would be considered "more normal".

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posted January 17, 2009 07:16 AM         

Well, as for the father's comment that time has passed since WWII - you might as well call your child Vlad Dracul. Fortunately, or unfortunately, names carry a reputation and an emotionally charged association. What do we think when we think of Winston Churchill, Michael Jackson or Madonna, for example?

My mum is German and anyone with an "Aryan" name had to carry the legacy of it after the war. She had a boyfriend called Eike in the 50s - his name apparently was very "Aryan", although I guess it equates to "Ike" in the US. His parents had been Nazis and his name was an embarrassment to him.

Then again, my grandmother was told in 1936 that she couldn't marry under her Christian name (Johanna) as this was a name with French associations. She was dumbfounded, and wanted to get married, so was advised that she should use her middle name (Helene) as this derived from Greek origins (which was okay).

It seems the Nazi regime were quite vociferous when it came to telling other people what they could and could not do, but did not take kindly to the same treatment themselves. To quote a German proverb:
"Was du nicht willst, dass man dir tu',
das fueg' auch keinem andern zu!"

Love,