It looked at one stage as if little Adolf Hitler would not be getting the birthday cake with his name on he had dreamed of.

The three year old, the child of Heath and Deborah Campbell of New Jersey was looking forward to celebrating his big day with a massive slice of personalised cake but the local cake store refused to put the words Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler on the icing saying some people would consider it racist.

The Campbells, who say they are not Nazis but chose the names for their son because they wanted him to have a name nobody else in the world had so he would always know he was special, were outraged.

“A name is just a name,” said Dad Heath, “it doesn’t mean the kid will grow up to do what Hitler did.”

No, but little Hitler might grow up to be a Health and Safety Inspector which is worse.

The non - nazi couple’s other two children are named Joyce Lynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Heinrich Himmler Jeannie Campbell.

They’re just an ordinary family with a penchant for fun filled names then. I wonder if instead of Happy Birthday the family planned to sing Tomorrow Belongs To Me as little Adolf blew out hid three candles.

But what of the poor little boy’s birthday party, did he have to suffer for his parents stupidity?

Fortunately no, it all tuned out well when Wal Mart, a company not know in any way for having fascist tendencies offered the services of their cake decorating counter.

Ah, we all love a happy ending.

FOOTNOTE: The Campbells told Boggart Blogs New Jersey correspondent they are so sick of being hassled for giving their kids distinctive names that if they have another male child he will simply be called “boy 2” until the eve of his thirteenth birthday when he will be baptised as “Completely Unsuitably Named Teenager.”

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