hey guys,
i'm working on a book about espionage during WWII.
i would like to use a typeface like this for the title.
can anyone identify this type or something close.
thanks.

Hi Brian,
that’s similar to Element, Potsdam or Tannenberg (> Gotisch > scroll down).
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See also Schaftstiefelgrotesk. Additionally, you can search the Global Type database for old metal faces like National or Deutschland. But your sample might aswell be handlettered, of course.
Or stroll through the work of Dieter Steffmann.
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