The basic plot of the story is a young Jewish boy from Brooklyn watches a play in which Hitler appears and the audience react badly, asking his mother why nobody seemed to like Hitler she replied with that "no one will be buying Hitler anything for Christmas". The boy takes it upon himself to go to Germany himself and presents the dictator with a kitten as a present, Hitler notices the boy is both Jewish and also has a swastika shaped birthmark - thus has the boy murdered and his skin turned into a lamp.