Posted on 07/01/2026 4:56:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
A prankster at East Brook Middle School in Paramus, New Jersey, just pulled off what might be the most insane yearbook prank you'll ever see.
Well, look who's burning books now! Yes, a child was supposed to send in a baby photo and sent in a photo of baby Adolf Hitler instead. And somehow, no one on the yearbook committee or in the middle school offices noticed the baby photo was over 100 years old.
Here's more from the Post:
'Earlier today, after students had already received their yearbooks, we learned that the baby pictures section of the yearbook contained an image that was later identified as an infant photograph of Adolf Hitler,' Ryan Aupperlee, principal of East Brook Middle School in Paramus, wrote in a June 25 letter to families obtained by NJ.com.
Yes, one of the baby photos was LITERALLY HITLER!
'We immediately collected the yearbooks so the image would not remain in circulation,' the letter assures the school community, noting they were assisting local law enforcement with an investigation.
'I want to be direct with you: the presence of this image is unacceptable. Even if the image was not immediately recognizable to those paging through the book, its inclusion in an official school publication is a severe breach of our values,' Aupperlee wrote.
Have we considered that it's very possible that Graham Platner may have simply placed an ad in the yearbook?
The kid who did this, while in trouble, is going to be considered a legend for pulling this off and getting the yearbook to print before anyone found out.
Liberals were obviously shaken by this news, but can you imagine how much worse it would've been if someone had submitted a photo of baby Trump?!?
I'll leave this here because it's hilarious.
LOL! Reminds me of my High School days in 1963 on the school newspaper. In a question column similar to Dear Abby, one student wrote in with a confidential question I will not repeat..The answer we chose was ...
“A thinking man uses a filter tip.”
The teacher got suspicious and would not let us print it.
A question someone proposed. IF you could go back in time would YOU murder the baby Hitler? Many said YES not realizing that if they did such a thing MAYBE millions of lives would be saved, but the world we live in today would be completely changed to nothing like today.
My parents would not have met except for meeting and marrying mom 1000 miles from where he lived in 1943 when he was drafted.
The only black and white photo didn’t raise any suspicion?
It was probably sent in printed on an black and white inkjet ...........
First, year books, graduations, proms, etc should be high school only. A class photo is sufficient for grade/middle school.
Second, this kid will grow up to be a waste of a community organizer and politician. While it may seem humorous to some, it cost the students and school their year books. The ‘baby Hitler’ should have to pay for the damages/replacement.
It caused a real “fuhrer”!
😁.............................
1000%....
i used to send pictures of Robert Plant for things like this later in life...
Seriously? I'll put my money on this kid becoming successful and making a positive impact on the world.
It only cost the students having to reprint their yearbooks because some self-righteous Karen wanted to virtue signal his moral superiority over a picture that 99.9% of people wouldn't have recognized in the first place.
\ Because I'm usually lying, dissembling, spinning, selecting, or otherwise distorting, manipulating, or abusing the truth ...
The Bibliography in reports done for high school often had books written by Theodore Nugent.
In my daughters high school yearbook one of her friends posted the Ronald Reagan quote, “If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism,” in his senior write up...this was a conservative Catholic HS and they let it go!!!
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime systematically murdered approximately six million Jewish people during the Holocaust.
There is nothing humorous about submitting this photo, has no place with middle school age kids, and as antisemitic. Or do you approve of teaching kids that its ok to hate jews?
how the hell did they know it was baby Hitler??? Was he sporting that mustache that early?
and too funny, kid.
Apparently it is a well known photograph................
the haircut gives him away.
Not to mention the death and misery he inflicted on the rest of society in his bid for world dominance. I don't really need a history lesson about Hitler, but thanks anyway.
There is nothing humorous about submitting this photo, has no place with middle school age kids, and as antisemitic. Or do you approve of teaching kids that its ok to hate jews?
So, if a rambunctious middle schooler decides to post a photo of Hitler as a baby, then it means that he is teaching kids that it's okay to hate Jews? Don't you think that's quite a reach? Not to be offensive, but that's the kind of histrionics I expect from the left.
I'm sure that as a conservative, you're a great guy and a brother in the cause, but it's obvious that we have polar opposite senses of humor and what we find offensive. I find the idea that a baby photo of Hitler posted as a prank will encourage antisemitism absurd.
I'd wager that this kid is not an admirer of Hitler; he submitted the picture because it was outrageous and would get a rise out of some people. As much as I try to share in your outrage, I really don't see this as an occasion to summon the spirit of Simon Wiesenthal to bring this kid to justice.
We used to have shame and we used to teach kids to be respectful.
Now it’s all about shock value and how many TikTok followers you can get.
Adults can be as childish, rude, or disrespectful as they want. What comes around goes around eventually. But this is inappropriate behavior for a middle school kid. And clearly some were offended. His parents should be ashamed and there should be consequences for this. Not to have some consequence is approving of his ‘prank’.
JMHO
I thought it was hilarious. I just don’t understand how it got through as far as actually being distributed. Children this age don’t get it. The baby doesn’t look like Hitler. It had to be an adult messing with the whole process. I wonder if the culprit ever will be identified.
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