WHO abolished the old German Gothic script?

Question

I once asked a German when the old gothic script (fraktur) was abolished and why. He told me that it was after World War II, because it looked too "Germanic". However, lately I've heard it was the NAZIS who abolished it because it looked too "Hebraic" and because the extra effort to read it caused more short-sightedness than was appropriate to a warrior race. Which is right?.

Answer 1

It was Hitler who in 1941 issued a curious order, effectively killing Fraktur printing and Kurrent writing. During the course of the war, the German type had proved to be a communications barrier with the peoples of occupied Europe and so in January of 1941, Fraktur was officially abolished by declaring it to be “Un-German” and “of Jewish origin”. The order directed all newspapers and publishing houses to switch to Antiqua at the earliest practicable date.

Answer 2

Both of these are right- students of German at university level are expected to be able to read old script because so many important documents and papers were written in it pre-war. It is difficult to read and for some reason the French seemed to have a great deal of difficulty in deciphering it. In modern Germany it's still used as a decorative font, many newspapers have their mastheads printed in it and it appears everywhere tourists go as they like to see 'ethnic German'.

Answer 3

Norse and German myths spring from an basic root, and decision commonly in difficulty-free words in how names are *spelled.* notwithstanding, the Irminsul (which Charlemagne destroyed) is a concepts extra important to continental Germanic beliefs and rites, and there are countless pretty German gods, like Saxnot and Tuistos, and goddesses, like Berchta, Holda, and Nehellania. present day reconstructionist efforts and communities might want to be discovered by technique of googling "Irminenschaft." a seem on the earliest well-known texts, albeit from a Roman POV, might want to be found in _The Agricola & Germania_ by technique of Tacitus, it remains revealed by technique of Dover and accessible.

Answer 4

Well, it was still in use in our German classes in 1961-64.

Answer 5

The answer above of "the-exile" is perfectly right.