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Written by Sesta on 2025-01-03 at 13:21

Many associate typefaces like the German "Fraktur" (blackletter) or "Kurrent" with the 3rd Reich (especially Neo-Nazis). But it was Hitler, who on January 3rd ordered to stop using these German traditional scripts in National Socialist publications & schools. His arguments were antisemitic & historically inaccurate through & through. He claimed that the traditionally used scripts were "jewish letters", originally designed by jewish printers in the beginnings ... (1/2)

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Written by Sesta on 2025-01-03 at 13:27

2/2 of the letterpress printing, which because of the guild restrictions was absolutely impossible. So subsequently there were used #Antiqua typefonts (like today). The Nazi printers weren't happy about the decision, eg Adolf Müller, printer of the party organ "Völkischer Beobachter", who loved the "aura" of the script he had always been using. This script was the Bernhard-Fraktur. It was, by the way, designed by the #Jewish graphic designer Lucian Bernhard in 1913.

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