America First Committee’s birthday party for Hitler goes up in Smoke
America First Committee’s birthday party for Hitler goes up in Smoke
Is this really 2011? According to the Chicago Tribune, swastika banners and cakes reading “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler” and “The South Was Right, White Men Fight” adorned P.J. Klem’s Restaurant & Banquet in Lyons, Illinois this past Saturday night as a group of 60 people celebrated the “122nd anniversary of Hitler’s birth” and “the April 12, 1861, start of the Civil War.”
The restaurant’s owner claims he wasn’t aware of the theme of the party when he rented the space to the “America First Committee,” even though he’s reportedly done so in previous years. The Huffington Post reports that during the event, a man with a backpack entered the banquet hall and ordered a grilled cheese sandwich before heading to the bathroom to set off a smo