It Takes a Special Kind of Man to Get Arrested Dressing Up Like Hitler in Hitler's Hometown

Man arrested for ‘dressing up as Hitler’ and posing outside Nazi leader’s birthplace https://t.co/imiz4ZmuSa

— The Independent (@Independent) February 14, 2017

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The Independent – A man has been arrested on suspicion of glorifying Nazism after allegedly impersonating Adolf Hitler at the dictator’s birthplace.

Sporting a distinctive side parting, moustache and 1940s-style suit, the 25-year-old reportedly walked into a bar in Braunau am Inn and introduced himself as “Harald Hitler”, before demanding Austrian mineral water.

He was also spotted browsing Second World War magazines in a local book shop and posing for photos outside the house where Hitler was born in 1889 before being arrested on Monday. …

Glorifying Hitler or the Third Reich is a crime in Austria, which Nazi Germany annexed in 1938.

Authorities in Braunau have been attempting to prevent the town becoming a destination for right-wing extremists.

Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write, but … You’ve got to hand it to this Hitler lover. I mean, plenty of guys talk a good game about dressing up Hitler. But how many of them are willing to go through with it in a place where you can get arrested for it? Not many, I promise you. If cops spent one day rounding up every knockoff Elmo or unlicensed, off-brand SpiderMan in Times Square, we’d never see another one again. So this shows a lot of want to.

Harald Hitler might be an evil, black-hearted sociopath with a fetish for the monster who started the war that killed 60 million people, but the man is dedicated to his craft. It takes a special kind of (excuse my language, Harald) chutzpah to open yourself up to getting thrown in jail next to some guy who lost his grandparents in Birkenau and doesn’t find your Seig Heiling the least bit amusing.

That said, his mustache is a disgrace. If you’re going to be a Hitler double, you have to go all in. The mustache is everything. Der Fuhrer ruined that square stache for all eternity for anyone except Hitler impersonators. And for Harald to puss out and go with this lame 4-inch job is weak fucking cheese. There are no half measures in the Hitler double game. One more sentence I never thought I’d write but I’m saying it to Harald Hitler: If you’re going to be a deranged neo-Nazi, at least show a little pride. Pussy.