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Cake request for 3-year-old Hitler namesake denied


Wed Dec 17, 12:33 am ET
Heath Campbell, left, with his wife Deborah and son Adolf Hitler, 3,
pose in AP � Heath Campbell, left, with his wife Deborah and son Adolf
Hitler, 3, pose in Easton, Pa.,, Tuesday, Dec. �

EASTON, Pa. � The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a
birthday cake with the child's full name on it by one New Jersey
supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance. Heath Campbell and his
wife, Deborah, are upset not only with the decision made by the
Greenwich ShopRite, but with an outpouring of angry Internet postings
in response to a local newspaper article over the weekend on their
flare-up over frosting.

"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," Heath
Campbell said Tuesday in an interview conducted in Easton, on the
other side of the Delaware River from where the family lives in
Hunterdon County, N.J.

"There's a new president and he says it's time for a change; well,
then it's time for a change," the 35-year-old continued. "They need to
accept a name. A name's a name. The kid isn't going to grow up and do
what (Hitler) did."

Deborah Campbell, 25, said she phoned in her order last week to the
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 spokeswoman for ShopRite, said the Campbells had
similar requests denied at the same store the last two years and said
Heath Campbell previously had asked for a swastika to be included in
the decoration.

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

The Campbells ultimately got their cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in
Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said. About 12 people attended the
birthday party on Sunday, including several children who were of mixed
race, according to Heath Campbell.

"If we're so racist, then why would I have them come into my home?" he
asked.

The Campbells' other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn
Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler
Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April.

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." He sounded surprised by all the controversy the dispute had
generated.

Campbell said his ancestors are German and that he has lived his
entire life in Hunterdon County. On Tuesday he wore a pair of black
boots he said were worn by a German soldier during World War II.

He 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.

"Say he grows up and hangs out with black people. That's fine, I don't
really care," he said. "That's his choice."

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