October 31, 2004.
FUROR OVER FUHRER COSTUME AT SCHOOL HALLOWEEN
MIAMI BEACH, Florida - A Miami Beach schoolboy caused a stir when he showed up
for his school's Halloween parade dressed up as Adolf Hitler, The Miami Herald
reported Saturday.
"Wildly inappropriate," said lawyer David Edelstein, who reportedly alerted the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) after seeing the youngster wearing a uniform,
swastika patches, a moustache and a name tag that said "A. Hitler."
The ADL's southern area director, Art Teitelbaum, told the daily it was "grossly
insensitive on the part of any adult who was involved in selecting this costume
for an innocent child. Nothing justifies the trivialisation of the memories of
the Holocaust and the evil of Adolf Hitler".
The school said the fourth grader was eventually removed from the parade "for
safety reasons".
--AFP