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School Yearbooks Recalled Over Baffling Hitler Photo

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The school hasn’t yet worked out exactly how a picture of the Führer as a baby made its way in there.

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School administrators have issued an urgent recall of yearbooks after a photograph of Adolf Hitler as a baby wound up featured inside. The bizarre snafu took place at East Brook Middle School in Paramus, New Jersey. The pages of the book were intended to be a compilation of baby photos of children who had just graduated, but somehow a black-and-white image of the Nazi dictator as an infant slipped in. Parents do not appear to have been impressed. Many have demanded to know how the snap ended up in the yearbook in the first place, and how exactly the school managed to miss Hitler in its pages before it was sent out. Police are understood to be aware of the situation, and the information has now been forwarded to the local prosecutor’s office. East Brook’s principal has since issued a statement, saying, “An image of him has no place in a yearbook created for our students. It does not reflect who we are or what East Brook stands for, and we condemn its inclusion without reservation.”

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