Controversy after student dresses as Adolf Hitler for school fair

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A storm of protest has erupted after a parent published images of her son dressed as genocidal dictator Adolf Hitler for his school fair project.

 

Social media user “Sam JJ GL” proudly posted the images of her teenage son attending a school fair at the New Generation School in Phnom Penh with the description “Come to meet Adolf Hitler Today my dear son has a program at his school fair (New Generation NGS). This year, there are a lot of different topics, science, national history and international…. My baby’s theme this year world war 2. He dressed as Hitler, the main character that caused WWII outbreak, and represented the Nazi-German symbols the world feared during WWII. Not intended to follow Hitler’s actions. And this is just the show that attracted the audience to visit the History Club, which is a second world war history research.”

 

The youth sported a trademark Hitler moustache, as well as a Nazi party armband – complete with the swastika symbol

A torrent of online criticism erupted via social media – including comments like: “Even so he’s asking for big trouble dressing up as Hitler their are people that would kill him just for dressing up like that. “Your son depicting Hitler is like him dressing up as Pol Pot it shouldn’t happen. Those two people should have not been born into this life. Need to educate him better”

 

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