Police this week busted the wannabe Führer whose Adolf Hitler impersonation caused an uproar in an Austrian town.
The man, who claimed his name was Harald Hitler, was arrested Monday on charges of glorifying the Nazi era, the BBC reported.
The 25-year-old dopey doppelgänger sported the dictator’s signature ‘stache and side-parted hair as he had his photograph taken outside the house in Braunau am Inn in which Adolf Hitler was born.
He had recently moved to the town of 17,000 inhabitants on the German border and also had been spotted in Vienna and Graz, police spokesman David Furtner told the BBC.
“The young man knows exactly what he is doing,” Furtner said.
Wearing a dark military outfit, the modern-day Hitler also was seen browsing magazines about World War II.
He also went to a local pub, where he insisted on being served “Austrian mineral water,” The Local reported.
Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker in 1945. Two years later, an Austrian law made it illegal to promote Nazi ideology.
“It was obvious that he glorified Hitler,” Furtner told French press agency AFP.
Adolf Hitler’s birth home has long been the subject of legal wrangling.
The Austrian government voted in December to buy the dilapidated, three-story building, which it has rented from Gerlinde Pommer since 1972. It wants to raze the building to prevent Nazi sympathizers from making pilgrimages to the site.
But Pommer last month launched proceedings against the expropriation, arguing it was unconstitutional. The court has yet to rule on the case.