/lit/ - Literature

>>10015508
Idiot. Fraktur and Antiqua coexisted for centuries. Scientific stuff was written in antiqua to make it look more latin and art and literature was generally written in fraktur. 80% of Germans are not even aware of the fact that fraktur ever existed nor can they read it. It's a cultural loss comparable to the simplification of Chinese characters.

>>10015512
No. Goebbels came up with it because he wanted to force the conquered lands of Europe to learn German and everyone buying German books, but he thought that learning Fraktur was to complicated for non germans. The nazis then claimed that the predecessor to fraktur, schwabacher, was the work of jews (for which there is no real evidence) as an excuse to ban it. Hilariously enough people these days think that fraktur is a nazi font because the nazis used modernized versions of fraktur quite often. (which is actually really fitting for fascists, merging the modern with tradition)

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Grotesque Fraktur (nazi font)
Fraktur
Grotesque Antiqua (aka Futur aka sans serif)