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Isidore Heath Campbell will legally be authorized to assume the surname of Hitler after May 8.

"The judge approved it. My name is Hitler now," Campbell said to MyCentralJersey.com.

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FLEMINGTON - Isidore Heath Campbell, the self-proclaimed Nazi dad, is now going to be known as Isidore Heath Hitler — legally.

Campbell, who drew national attention when a supermarket refused to decorate a birthday cake for his son, filed a name change request on Feb. 14 to legally change his surname to Hitler. On Friday, Superior Court Judge Michael O'Neill signed off on the request, granting Campbell's name change to Hitler.

After May 8, Campbell will legally be authorized to assume the surname of Hitler, according to court papers filed on Friday.

"I'm named after a hero," Campbell said to MyCentralJersey.com. "The judge approved it. My name is Hitler now."

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Hitler is a hero because "he saved Germany, he brought up the economy in Germany, built the roads in Germany, gave them more jobs in Germany, he considered the people in Germany," Campbell said. "I'm very proud."

He said that Hitler cared about Germany, unlike the governments in America.

"Only Trump has considered the people in America," he said. "Only Trump has. The rest of them were only in office for a pocket full of money. Trump doesn't care about that. He cares about the people."

"Trump is right, man, build that wall," he said. "We need that wall. We need to get those immigrants out of here. We need to get them all out of here."

Campbell, who listed a Shippensburg, Pennsylvania address on the court papers but once lived in Holland Township, has faced legal problems in the past.

Although Campbell was not seen at Hunterdon County Superior Court on Friday, he is no stranger to the county court system.

In 2013, he marched into the Hunterdon County Courthouse dressed in a Nazi uniform to petition a family court judge to allow him to see his youngest son, Heinrich Hons Campbell, who had been removed from his father's custody shortly after he was born in 2011.

His other children, Adolf Hitler Campbell, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honzlynn Jeannie Campbell, were placed in foster care because of alleged violence in the family's home. Court papers say that Campbell refused to comply with an order that he seek counseling because "the psychologist was Jewish."

"They took them over a name," Campbell said in reference to losing custody of his children. "My son's name is Adolf Hitler. They put a Jude in there as a judge and they went ahead and did what they did."

He also alleged that his kids were being abused in the state's custody.

"When I went to visit, there were a lot of bruises on my kids," he said. "I can't do anything to them, obviously, cause I'm the Nazi — the Nazi leader, you know?"

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Last year, Campbell was arrested on a fugitive warrant in Pennsylvania for an aggravated assault charge in connection with a domestic violence incident. In a plea deal, he was sentenced to 180 days in jail and two years probation on obstruction of justice charges and resisting arrest.

Campbell also was the leader of the pro-Nazi group Hitler's Order that he founded in 2012.

Though Hitler is an uncommon last name, especially since World War II, it is not unheard of. The 2010 Census recorded fewer than 100 people across America who have it; 133 people spell it Hittler, according to a Newsday database. And the Social Security death index logs a dozen people named Hitler who died since 1965, 52 spelled Hittler, and had Social Security cards, according to the Ancestry.com database, which covers 1935 to 2014.

New Jersey law has few legal restrictions on names, and the state's Office of Vital Statistics and Registry can reject a name only because it contains an obscenity, numerals or symbols or a combination that is "illegible," according to a 2014 blog entry from the Philadelphia law firm of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel.

As for Campbell, he's happy his name change went through and he still considers himself a Nazi leader.

"I like it when the newspapers put in self-proclaimed Nazi," he said.

"I sincerely, truly thank the judge for what he has done and," he said, adding, "and Heil Hitler to the world."

Staff Writer Nick Muscavage: 908-243-6615; ngmuscavage@gannettnj.com