Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI
BurnoutDV@lemmy.world 3 days agoits not even funny because the nazis actually abolished Fraktur for being jewish or something…without googling it…yeah, probably something about “being jewish” that used to be their go-to, cant be wrong
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hitler personally disliked Fraktur and gave a speech against it in 1934. It continued to be used as ‘the true German script’ until 1941, when the party made a 180 and banned it under the pretext that it wasn’t Fraktur, but Schwabacher, a similar blackletter script, which they called ‘Jewish letters’.
Moreover, it was banned so hard that cursive scripts Kurrent and Sütterlin were forbidden as well. As a result, people educated after 1941 often couldn’t read handwritten letters and notes of their ancestors.