Dad Wears Nazi Uniform For Child Custody Case

[WcoastO]

Source: Sky News

A man who gave his children Nazi-inspired names has dressed up in full fascist regalia as he appeared in a US court seeking to secure visitation rights to his youngest son.

Heath Campbell - father of Adolf Hitler Campbell, 7, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, 6, Honzlynn Jeannie Campbell, 5, and 18-month-old Heinrich Hons Campbell - donned a German Nazi uniform for the hearing in Flemington, New Jersey.

The 40-year-old, who also sports a large swastika tattoo on his neck, was appearing before the court in a bid to win the right to see Heinrich Hons, who was taken into care by social services soon after his birth in November 2011.

Read more: http://news.sky.com/story/1099172/dad-wears-nazi-uniform-for-child-custody-case

[NYC_SKP]

1. Named his son, "Adolph Hitler Cambell"?

[Mr. David]

4. You should see what he named his daughters..

Aryan Nation Campbell and Himmler Campbell (Jazlynn and Hoslynn are their first names)

[EvilAL]

35. WTF? indeed, what a fuckin whacko.

[TxDemChem]

2. I remember this guy and his wife

They wanted to get young Adolf a birthday cake with his name on it and the bakery refused. It's been downhill for that family ever since. I hope they make judgment against the parents. Ignorant asses!

[Adsos Letter]

9. I remember that story.

I didn't realize this was the same family.

[DRoseDARs]

11. Your timeline's a little off. It was downhill for that family looooong before the cake... nt

[rebecca_herman]

17. yep

As soon as I saw the title I guessed it was him. I think the kids are better off in foster care. There was an appellate ruling that went into more detail about violence in the home when the older three were removed.

[sakabatou]

3. Yeah, wearing a Nazi uniform will really help his case

[Initech]

5. Don't be a stupid be a smarty come and join the Nazi party.

[fantase56]

16. tears rolling down my face...

laughing my fucking ass off. Kept thinking about "The Producers" while I reading the article. Reality is always more bizarre than fiction or comedy. The Onion couldn't have done better.

[zbdent]

6. Why do I get the sneaky suspicion that

he didn't vote for Obama?

[hughee99]

39. I have a feeling he wasn't a Rmoney voter either. n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

7. Sounds like he wants to lose custody

It also sounds like being a hero to certain elements in our society is more important to him than having custody of his children.

[jessie04]

8. Sounds like a great guy.

[Botany]

10. And he named his son Heinrich?

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/himmler.html

Heinrich Himmler was Reichsfuhrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, Nazi Minister of the Interior from 1943 to 1945 and organizer of the mass murder of Jews in the Third Reich.

[Xithras]

22. Heinrich is still relatively common in Germany.

In fact, I'd say it's the only one of those kids names that's relatively "normal". Heinrich is simply the German form of Henry, and the name never picked up the same stigma that Adolf acquired. It's a bit old fashioned, but there are still lots of kids named Heinrich in Germany today (and Denmark, and Sweden, and the rest of the surrounding region).

[Botany]

24. True but this is not Germany and the Father likes to dress like Hitler ....

..... so when he uses the name Henrich it is not a reach to know he was giving
props to Herr Himmler.

[Xithras]

27. I'm fully aware of why he named him that.

I was just pointing out that "Heinrich" doesn't carry the same stigma as "Adolf".

Heinrich is my uncles middle name, by the way. My grandmother gave him the name in memory of her father, who lived in Iowa back when German names were still very common.

[Botany]

32. thanx

n/t

[bigworld]

12. I have some concerns about this

I'm not defending this guy - and I absolutely agree that the kids are going to better off raised by a different family.

But I'm wondering -- has this guy ever in fact abused his kids? Should we be taking away the kids from someone only because they hold an abhorrent political opinion? Is that child abuse? What if he named his son Pol Pot? Or Lenin? Where do we draw the line?

Yes the guy's a goof, but unless there is documented, real abuse, I do have a little problem with this.

[thucythucy]

13. Yes, evidently there were other instances of abuse.

My recollection is that there are accounts of his wife calling the police saying he'd threatened to kill them all, resulting in a restraining order. There were other incidents as well--some of these involving abusive and neglectful behavior on the part of the mother -- stuff about tying kids to their chairs, lack of nutrition, etc. The fact seems to be that neither parent is particularly functional.

Besides which, do you honestly think someone with so little sense of reality as to show up dressed as a Nazi to a child custody hearing is capable of making responsible decisions about, say, his children's health needs?

Hopefully the court will render a decision that's in the best interests of these poor kids. Then dear old dad can play dress-up for Deutschland all he wants.

[Mz Pip]

14. There are different types of abuse

Maybe these kids weren't physically abused but naming a kid Adolph Hitler would certainly qualify as emotional and psychological abuse.IMHO.

That's pretty humiliating. You don't have to leave bruises to scar a kid for life.

[hughee99]

40. If the names you give your children can qualify emotional and physhological abuse,

do we start taking celebrity children away too? Would the state come take custody of Jason Lee's son Pilot Inspektor Lee, Shannon Sossamon's son Audio Science, and, of course, all of Frank Zappa's children (back when they were children)?

I'm not saying I'm in favor of naming a child after one of the most hated people in human history, but there has to be more than the child's name for the state to intervene. In this case, I understand there was.

[Posteritatis]

44. He's been in the news for more conventional kinds of abuse as well

To say nothing of the sort of things he's doubtlessly indoctrinating them with it. There are lines.

[rebecca_herman]

18. there was other evidence

I would have to try and Google it again but I read the appellate court reading when he failed to regain custody of the older three. There was violence against the mother which the children witnesses as well as some neglect.

[geek tragedy]

20. Naming your kid Adolf Hitler is per se emotional abuse, nt

[struggle4progress]

42. They lost custody in June 2012; court concluded there was abuse;

at the time Ortsgruppenleiter Wannabe said he'd even give up Nazism to get his kids back

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/06/05/adolf-hitler-campbell-custody-battle-parents-who-gave-kids-nazi-names-wont-get-them-back/

[freshwest]

43. Well, he's changed his mind apparently. Look at these pictures:

Fascist statement: Heath Campbell, 40, appeared at a New Jersey court today to try to reclaim custody of his children, wearing full Nazi regalia and accompanied by fellow Nazi Bethanie White

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2335367/Heath-Campbell-White-supremacist-turns-court-Nazi-regalia-fight-custody-children--named-Adolf.html



http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/04/heath-campbell-nazi-father-child-named-adolf-hitler-custody-heinrich-hons_n_3382822.html

[Kablooie]

15. This is not a smart man.

[obama2terms]

19. Well

He seems to be trying everything in his power to NOT get his kids back.

[tblue]

21. Maybe he doesn't want custody.

Clearly wasn't trying to win his case.

[LibertyLover]

23. Interesting outfits that both Mr. Campbell and his wife have on -

Looking at hers, I'm reminded of the scene from 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' where Indy and his father are in the zepplin's lounge. She looks like the waiter. They couldn't at least have found a photo of a Wehrmacht nurse in uniform and copied that? I'll admit that I'm not terribly up to speed on German uniforms from the Second World War, so I can't comment on what Mr. Campbell is wearing other than to say that his attempts to look like his hero, Der Fuhrer, are sadly lacking. If he's wearing the model 44 Wehrmacht uniform, all I can say is that it was in service at the end of the war and worn pretty much by green troops. What idiots.

[Tom Ripley]

25. this is what happens when an upskirt is not an attention-getting option

[JustAnotherGen]

26. Only in NJ Boys and Girls

Only in NJ!

[smokey nj]

30. So one moron defines an entire state?

[JustAnotherGen]

33. Nope

It's a play on page six. Relax. I live here. Seriously - panty bunching over a tip of the hat to Page six? :rolleyes:

But it's the cra cra that I've only seen in NJ. Like it or lump it - we are pretty tolerant here. Even to those who do stupid shit like this.


And tip of the hat to our Southern DU'ers - I hope they latch onto this and bring it up every time someone says it only happens there.

[smokey nj]

34. This post makes even less sense than your earlier one.

[JustAnotherGen]

41. go smoke something

Maybe it will make you a little less self absorbed and full of yourself.

Go ahead and alert. I welcome it.

[smokey nj]

46. Seems like you've described yourself with this

post. It makes you look like a petulant child.

[snooper2]

37. in some cases yes

[kentauros]

47. If the mo-ron had been from/in Texas,

it most certainly would have defined an entire state.

It's DU's modus operandi, after all...

[penultimate]

48. It's really only fair to that with the state of Florida......

(kidding, of course)

[rucky]

28. I wonder if he ever sang "I'm a Little Teapot" to his kids...

[wordpix]

29. I don't feel sorry for this Nazi, just for his poor kids

I'm sure he was denied custody for more than a tattoo.

[DeSwiss]

31. The uniform won't work.....

...unless of course, he's appearing before Judge Edith Jones, who would no doubt, sympathize with him.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

36. Give him a break, folks. His lawyer told him to wear his best clothes,

so he did. Simple as that.


I cannot imagine growing up with a parent like that. That is simply . . . there are no words.

[shawn703]

38. Why are they only mentioning the dad and not the mom?

Because from the photo in the link it looks like the mom is also in Nazi regalia. Unless his lawyer just finds it fashionable to wear a shirt with the Reichsadler embroidered on the pocket.

[freshwest]

45. That's not Mom. That's Bethanie White, one of his followers. He and Mom are separated:

Two of their four children at this link including little Adolf:

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/weird/Hitler-Parents-Claim-Judge-Found-No-Abuse-of-Adolf-Aryan-Nation.html

Another odd twist in the story:



http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/107644/parents_of_adolf_hitler_lose

The interesting couple in earlier days: