Here’s a whopper: Little Adolf Hitler Campbell, who just turned three, won’t be having a birthday cake this year. He is the middle child of three who were given Nazi-themed names by their parents. Their dad’s love for everything Nazi has determined him not only to name their children that way, but decorate his home with swastikas and wear WW2 Wehrmacht boots.

The father, Heath, and the mother Deborah Campbell were outraged that when ShopRite, their local baker in New Jersey refused to decorate a birthday cake with little Hitler’s name.

ShopRite, of Holland Township, ignored their parents’ demands to put icing on their son’s cake spelling “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler” after unsurprisingly determining that the words were inappropriate.

"They're just names, you know," the father told press. "Yeah, they (the Nazis) were bad people back then. But my kids are little. They're not going to grow up like that."

Adolf has two sisters name JoyceLinn Aryan Nation and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie.

"Other kids get their cake," Campbell complained. "I get a hard time. It's not fair to my children. How can a name be offensive?"

Mrs. Campbell, 25, phoned in the order for the cake last week, but when she told the bakery the specifications, the clerk first asked that she spell out the name, then referred her to a supervisor who told her they can’t have it.

“We reserve the right not to print anything on the cake that we deem to be inappropriate,” said ShopRite spokeswoman Karen Meleta. “We considered this inappropriate.”

Meleta said that this was not the Campbells’ first brush with the store, as a similar request was denied two years ago, and the shop also refused to put engrave swastikas into baked goods for the family.

The baffled father voiced his frustration to such ‘discrimination’, saying that “They need to accept a name. A name’s a name. The kid isn’t going to grow up and do what (Hitler) did.” What about what others are going to do to the kid?

Campbell said that he named his son after the Fuhrer because “no one else in the world would have that name.” This is true. Nobody else would want it. In fact as we understand it, the name Adolf alone, which used to be very common in Italy, France, Germany and other some countries with Germanic languages, is now all but gone in most parts of Europe.

Now this fellow names his child Adolf Hitler - a name that evokes horrid images of war crimes and death. Now I have nothing to say about Mr. Campbell’s beliefs, but what is certain that he condemned his child to school-life of hell. Children can be very cruel, and there won’t be a more easy target for such cruelty than little Adolf.

The guy can be as Nazi-sympathetic as he wants, but claiming not to understand why someone would be outraged by names which evoke bad memories and provoke strong emotional reactions from most Americans is either stupid or crassly arrogant. Either case, the parents aren’t doing their children any favours. For that reason I would call them bad parents, and not because they’re nostalgic over a bygone totalitarian ideology. EB out.