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> use of Fraktur by a certain european political party

You mean how Nazi abolished Fraktur along with Kurrentschrift?

> On January 3, 1941, Martin Bormann issued a circular to all public offices which declared Fraktur (and its corollary, the Sütterlin-based handwriting) to be Judenlettern (Jewish letters) and prohibited their further use.

> “In a hundred years, our language will be the European language. The nations of the east, the north and the west will, to communicate with us, learn our language. The prerequisite for this: The script called Gothic is replaced by the script we have called Latin so far.” (Hitler's declaration in the Reichstag, 1934)




To clarify, Nazis did flip their position on Fraktur, and before '41 Antiqua was criticized as ‘Jewish’ just as well. But since the whole country used Fraktur for ages before the ban, associating it with Nazis is ridiculous.




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