# NJ Adolph Hitler update **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 3, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080 "2013-06-03T23:51:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/21 "2013-06-04T22:26:21Z")
Maybe he didn’t have a choice. He might not have been able to read the instructions for the washing machine. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/22 "2013-06-04T22:35:29Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > He at least seems to know how to spell Adolf. It’s surprising how many get that wrong. I know. I thought maybe the guy spelled it wrong, but no, it’s the OP. When a guy who can’t read spells something right and you can’t, I think it’s time to reevaluate. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/23 "2013-06-04T22:46:18Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I know. I thought maybe the guy spelled it wrong, but no, it’s the OP. When a guy who can’t read spells something right and you can’t, I think it’s time to reevaluate. Yeah yeah. I’ll put my record up against yours any day. For those interested the link in the first post has been updated. It know contains a filmed interview on the courthouse steps. Comedy gold. ---
**Author:** ![MN\_Maenad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e95f7d/32.png) [@MN\_Maenad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MN_Maenad)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/24 "2013-06-04T23:16:39Z")
My favorite quote from the Smoking Gun article is this: > [@](#): > > When asked if wearing the Nazi uniform would hurt him in the eyes of the Family Court judge, Campbell told a TV reporter, “Well, if they’re good judges, and they’re good people, they’ll look within and not what’s on the outside.” A Nazi thinks people should be looking at someone’s character rather than his appearance. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/25 "2013-06-05T02:22:50Z")
OK, so this guy is racist, mean, illiterate, unemployable, and BATSHIT CRAZY, and somehow he managed to get married not once but THREE times, and has produced at least six children? I swear, sometimes I think _Idiocracy_ is a documentary. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/26 "2013-06-05T06:22:10Z")
“JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell” is a stupid name. It doesn’t flow AT ALL. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/27 "2013-06-05T13:40:34Z")
> [@Fretful\_Porpentine](#): > > OK, so this guy is racist, mean, illiterate, unemployable, and BATSHIT CRAZY, and somehow he managed to get married not once but THREE times, and has produced at least six children? I swear, sometimes I think _Idiocracy_ is a documentary. Sure he’s all that. But he does have a wonderful fashion sense. Always wears Hugo Boss. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/28 "2013-06-05T14:43:32Z")
BTW, what rank did the guy give himself with that uniform? Please tell me it’s one of those super long SS Ranks like “UberOberU-BahnSturmDangleFuhrer” of Ulm. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/29 "2013-06-05T15:55:52Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > BTW, what rank did the guy give himself with that uniform? Please tell me it’s one of those super long SS Ranks like “UberOberU-BahnSturmDangleFuhrer” of Ulm. Picture of uniform: [link](http://l.yimg.com/ea/img/-/130604/heath_campbell_18qqaml-18qqamp.jpg) Closeup picture: [link](http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1171661/thumbs/o-HEATH-CAMPBELL-FATHER-IN-NAZI-UNIFORM-570.jpg?6) Wiki [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniforms_and_insignia_of_the_Schutzstaffel) on SS uniforms. Wiki on regular army [uniforms](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht_uniforms). My guess: I bet it’s a “kit bash”. The eagle patch on his left breast is the 2nd pattern eagle in the SS wiki link. (1936-1945) The shoulder boards might be “Sturmscharfuhrer” from the SS link. The long collar/lapel patches (which appears to be the same on both sides) stump me. For the SS, it should indicate rank, in the Army, it should indicate enlisted or officer. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/30 "2013-06-05T16:58:17Z")
To be honest, it looks more like he’s about to start singing, “Springtime for Hitler, and Germaneeeeee…” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/31 "2013-06-05T19:51:29Z")
Hard to see but it looks like an enlisted rank. Maybe even a current German army rank. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/32 "2013-06-06T20:15:56Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > One of the interesting things about this guy is that his mental issues would have gotten him put to death or at least sterilized in the Third Reich. That’s right, the very group he champions would kill him if it came to power. Wearing the uniform to court? That’s just about reaches fetish level. “Just about”? One of the nicest clients I ever had as a Legal Aid lawyer was _covered_ in Nazi tattoos. I made it a point not to talk religion, politics or history with him, though. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/33 "2013-06-06T20:21:27Z")
From the article in to OP, the guy sounds more pitiable than anything else - he clearly suffers from serious mental issues, and this whole Nazi thing is more like a giant exercise in attention-seeking than a real commitment to national socialism. ---
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/34 "2013-06-06T21:12:31Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > From the article in to OP, the guy sounds more pitiable than anything else - he clearly suffers from serious mental issues, and this whole Nazi thing is more like a giant exercise in attention-seeking than a real commitment to national socialism. Oddly, if you watch the video, the guy **sounds** completely normal, even fairly intelligent. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/35 "2013-06-06T22:05:26Z")
> [@Running\_with\_Scissors](#): > > Oddly, if you watch the video, the guy **sounds** completely normal, even fairly intelligent. Certainly. Lots of folks with serious mental issues _are_ fairly intelligent; and many can pass for normal, in the context of an interview or conversation. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/36 "2013-06-06T22:16:20Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > From the article in to OP, the guy sounds more pitiable than anything else - he clearly suffers from serious mental issues, and this whole Nazi thing is more like a giant exercise in attention-seeking than a real commitment to national socialism. I knew a guy who had serious mental issues, and was also a neo-Nazi. (I don’t throw around the word “nazi” lightly, and I have multiple reasons I believed he was a neo-Nazi, which I’m not going to get into here.) He did say that he’d never harm anyone, though. ---
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/37 "2013-06-06T22:27:00Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Certainly. Lots of folks with serious mental issues _are_ fairly intelligent; and many can pass for normal, in the context of an interview or conversation. Oops, not what I meant to convey at all, shouldn’t have quoted that post. Of course I know that. I meant to contrast it with his whole neo-Nazi persona. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/38 "2013-06-06T22:34:03Z")
> [@Running\_with\_Scissors](#): > > Oops, not what I meant to convey at all, shouldn’t have quoted that post. Of course I know that. > > I meant to contrast it with his whole neo-Nazi persona. No prob. 🙂 Yeah, it is an odd sight seeing someone who habitually goes around wearing a homemade Nazi uniform sounding like a reasonable guy - you _know_ he’s got a screw loose. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/39 "2013-06-07T00:35:57Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > From the article in to OP, the guy sounds more pitiable than anything else - he clearly suffers from serious mental issues, and this whole Nazi thing is more like a giant exercise in attention-seeking than a real commitment to national socialism. Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, **Malthus** ; at least it’s an ethos. ---
**Author:** ![DeptfordX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DeptfordX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeptfordX)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080/40 "2013-06-07T22:32:10Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > He did say that he’d never harm anyone, though. Well that’s kinda missing the point on the whole ‘Nazi’ thing i’d say. “We must secure Lebensraum in the East. Prepare the strongly worded letter to the newpaper”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nj-adolph-hitler-update/660080.md?page=3)