Revealed: Nazi who named his baby after Adolf Hitler – and now facing ten years in jail for being part of terror group – spent a year in Israel studying to be JEWISH
- Adam Thomas, 22, was convicted today of being part of the extreme right-wing group National Action
- Self-confessed racist had an admiration for Adolf Hitler and named his son after the Nazi leader
- Police found Nazi memorabilia in the Oxfordshire home he shared with girlfriend Claudia Patatas, 38
- Now MailOnline can reveal that anti-Semite Thomas spent a year in Israel studying to be Jewish
- A Rabbi has told MailOnline how Thomas developed a bizarre obsession with Judaism and contacted him to convert
- Rabbi Grosser, who is based in Jerusalem, said Thomas then started wearing Jewish clothing at his grandparents’ home where he was living
- The Rabbi said he helped Thomas move to the northern Israeli city of Haifa in February 2016 and took the name Avi ben Avraham
- Rabbi Avishai Grosser told MailOnline: ‘He repeatedly confided that his dream was to join the Israeli military and to become an Israeli citizen’
A Nazi fanatic found guilty of being part of an extreme right-wing group and who named his baby son after Adolf Hitler spent a year in Israel trying to become a Jew, MailOnline can reveal.
Adam Thomas and his girlfriend Claudia Patatas are facing up to 10 years in jail after being found guilty of being part of banned extreme right group National Action today.
The right-wing extremist couple, who hoarded Nazi memorabilia at their Birmingham home, posed with their newborn baby wearing white Ku-Klux Klan outfits.
But a Rabbi has told MailOnline how Thomas, 22, developed a bizarre obsession with Judaism and contacted him to convert.
Avishai Grosser said he spoke several times on the phone to Thomas, who showed an impressive knowledge of the religion.
Adam Thomas (left and right), a Nazi fanatic found guilty of being part of an extreme right-wing group and who named his baby son after Adolf Hitler spent a year in Israel trying to become a Jew, MailOnline can reveal
Thomas (right) and Claudia Patatas (left) holding a Swastika flag with their baby, who was named after Hitler despite Thomas previously being obsessed with converting to Judaism
Rabbi Avishai Grosser (pictured at the head of the table) told MailOnline that Thomas (far left) repeatedly said he wanted to join the Israeli military. He also expressed an interest in killing Arabs
Rabbi Grosser, who is based in Jerusalem, said Thomas then started wearing Jewish clothing at his grandparents’ home where he was living.
The Rabbi said he helped Thomas move to the northern Israeli city of Haifa in February 2016 and took the name Avi ben Avraham.
Rabbi Grosser told MailOnline: ‘He repeatedly confided that his dream was to join the Israeli military and to become an Israeli citizen.’
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Two months after moving to Haifa Thomas was given a place at Machon Meir, a religious school in Jerusalem, where he began the education required to convert.
But two months later he dropped out of the school.
Former school friends recall that his pseudo-Jewish views became increasingly violent and he urged Israel to be more like Saudi Arabia where gays could be stoned to death.
Thomas holds his baby, who he gave the middle name Adolf after the Nazi leader, in a white Ku-Klux Klan costume that he inherited from his great-grandfather, a supporter of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in the 1930s
Despite his repugnant anti-Semitic views, Thomas moved to the northern Israeli city of Haifa in February 2016 and took the name Avi ben Avraham
Benjamin Moss, 23, said: ‘He saw himself as more Jewish than the Jews and had a massive superiority complex. He would say all Jews who disagreed with him were going to hell.
As time went on, students and teachers at the seminary raised concern about Mr Thomas’ ‘obsession’ with violence.
‘He was obsessed with going to the army and was obsessed with killing,’ Mr Moss said.
‘I was serving in the army myself, and he would ask if me if I got to kill Arabs. He seemed pretty excited about wanting to kill them.
Thomas (left) and his girlfriend Patatas (right) were convicted of being members of the proscribed terror group National Action
Police found Nazi memorabilia which had the swastika emblazoned on it in the Oxfordshire home of Thomas and Patatas
Another former school friend said Thomas persuaded a group of Jewish extremists in Hebron, on the West Bank, to give him a circumcision – even though he was not a Jew.
David Simpkins, 34, his room-mate at Machon Meir seminary, said: ‘When he came back, it was just obvious he was in some kind of pain and he told me he’d been circumcised. I told him that was incredibly stupid.’
After dropping out of school Thomas moved to Tel Aviv to live with a non-Jewish girlfriend.
In March 2016, the relationship broke down and he ended up living rough on the streets.
Out of concern for his welfare, Rabbi Grosser tracked him down, bought him food and persuaded him that ‘it was the wrong time to convert to Judaism and that he should return to the UK, where he resumed his racist and anti-Semitic views and joined National Action.
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