To Steal, or not to steal?

The picture above asks a question. The question is as follows: " It is 1933. You are in Berlin, Germany. Somehow, you find yourself in a position where you can effortlessly steal Adolf Hitler's wallet. This theft will not effect Hitler's rise to power, the nature of World War II, or the Holocaust. There is no important identification in the wallet, but the act will cost Hitler forty Reichsmarks (german currency back then) and completely ruin his evening. You do not need the money. The odds that you will be caught committing this crime are less than 2 percent.
Are you ethically obligated to steal Hitler's wallet? 


This question is difficult to answer, maybe even impossible. It leads to many other ethical questions that could be asked such as; Why would that be an obligation? Because Hitler did bad things, is stealing his wallet justified?
Of course we know he is responsible for the largest genocide in history, but if we had an opportunity to do something bad to him in return, knowing what he did, we assume that anyone would do it. It is expected of everyone that if they had the chance to subject Hitler to some sort of inconvenience, even if it is as insignificant as stealing a wallet, they would. Why? 
It is has been taught to us as children that what he did and who is was, was bad. We are programmed to give a negative connotation to his name whenever it is spoken. But we have never been taught how to respond if an opportunity is presented. It is a thing of the past, and why would we ever need to know how to deal with something that has already happened and over with? But once we are faced with a question like this, we do not know how to answer. Though most would steal the wallet, many would stop to think, "what's the point?" If it doesn't affect anything about the war or the holocaust, why do it? Because somehow we think that stealing a wallet will compensate for a fraction of the crimes that he committed, and that somehow makes us some sort of hero. So before you go to bed tonight, demand an answer from yourself to this question, and ask yourself why. You may be like me, and not be able to come up with an actual reasons for your "yes of course I would."