So a year-old today may not have as strong an opinion on Hitler as we did. Maybe if her name was Bin Laden it would be way worse for her. I was going to mention that—whether you came across opinions on the name specifically colored by age or culture? Like how there are clothing stores in India named "Hitler" because the name isn't as big a part of the region's history as in Europe or America. We explored all of that stuff.
We explored stuff like that as a storyline in the film—we even explored other names to include in the storyline—but we didn't go there. But the name has a different effect on different cultures. Like you said, there's the store in India. In fact, most of them are gone now, but a few years ago there were also Hitler-themed restaurants.
What are your thoughts on the family featured in the film who named their kid Adolf Hitler? I'm a documentary filmmaker, so I should be objective. But I'm also a human being. Some people would say it's a First Amendment right—that you can name your kid whatever you want.
But, to me, when you're naming a kid something like that, that's going to affect a kid the rest of their life. I don't feel it was down to anything other than the father, Heath Campbell, who's a neo-Nazi. Those are his beliefs. He's got swastika tattoos. He did it to make a statement. It wasn't about the kid; it was about himself.
Did you expect to meet neo-Nazis when you started production on the film? The scary thing about making a documentary is that you don't know the ending when you start; things change as you go deeper and deeper.
At first, I thought, Hey, I'm going to make this quirky film about people with the name Hitler. Sort of a dark comedy. But it went deeper than that. It's still a character-driven film; it's not about saving the whales, or anything like that. It's people. The thread is this connection between name and identity.
How connected do you think those two things are? I think your name can affect how people react to you from an early age, which is when your brain is shaping and your identity is forming. So, for example, if you got made fun of as a kid because of your name, that may affect your identity. Would you have kept the name Hitler if you were born with it? If you're born with that name, you're born with that name. If it were me personally—I'm Jewish—I wouldn't keep that name. Adolf hasn't been a common first name for American kids since the s, according to the Social Security Administration, which also keeps track of baby names.
When the notorious Adolf Hitler was appointed German chancellor in , 17 newborn boys were named Adolf across the USA, tying it with 61 other male names for 1,th; more than 9, male names are on the list.
Adolf is not on the list, the most recent available, nor did it show up on the agency's list when Adolf Hitler Campbell was born. Court papers say that Campbell refused to comply with an order that he seek counseling because "the psychologist was Jewish. Campbell will return March 24 to Hunterdon County Superior Court for a hearing on his name-change application.
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Ethical conundrums. This sporting life. Stage and screen. Birds and the bees. What did Hitlers change their names to after the second world war? In fact, Hitler himself was originally called Schicklegruber. Some have speculated that he changed his name to hide his Jewish descent. This was the name of his paternal grandmother.
His father took the name of his supposed father, which was spelled Hiedler or Hitler according to preference, when he was 40, well before Adolf was born. Adolf Hitler had three surviving siblings. His half-brother Alois lived in Liverpool and had a son called William Patrick, who died in He changed his name and lived in the USA.
He is believed to have left 4 sons, who have decided not to have children in order not to perpetuate the line. His sister Paula never married and had no children.
She was known as Paula Wolf for a lot of her life. His half sister Angela married and had a daughter, Geli Raubal, who died in I believe there was also a son Leo Raubal who died in action in It is unlikely that the story of Adolf Hitler's father being half Jewish is true. But since Anna Maria Schickelgruber died when her son was 5 years old no one will ever know the real details of what seems a very complicated story. James is right in saying that Hitler wasn't a common family name in Germany.
A look into the electronic telephone book shows no Hitler in all Germany, but 24 Hittler and still 3 Hiedler. So, possibly, the addition of another "t" which doesn't change pronunciation might be the answer to the second question. Roland Wittig, Freiberg, North Germany In checking back for the provenance of the name Hitler, one would be better off looking elsewhere than Germany. Hitler was Austrian. I took the name of my stepfather at my mother's urging when I was years-old. I'm now trying to find out where my former surname came from.
My grandfather, on my father's side, used to say that it was of British origin. And, after doing a little genealogical research, I discovered that several Hitlers migrated from Germany to Ohio in the s. My family on my father's side is originally from Ohio, so this seems like a good lead.
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