I don't get it.

hhp

You mean the links at the end of the article do not work?
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Or the link to the article itself does'nt work?
http://www.bleisetzer.de/tagebuch/typo-raetsel-iv.html

Georg
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Okay, again:
1. Which six scans show the original 6 “Nazi fonts” from the magazine?
2. Which of the 5 other fonts would never ever been used in Nazi Germany for these ads?

Georg
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The problem with a quiz of this type is that it focuses on the history of each typeface rather than on its effect with the anticipated audience for the project in hand. The question is whether a typeface evokes thoughts of Nazi Germany in the mind of the expected reader, not whether the typeface was used in Germany for Nazi publications.

I'll give a slightly different example. I design and set publications for a Jewish organization. I wouldn't use a Fraktur typeface - even if Hitler thought it was a Jewish typeface - nor would I use a New Gothic type. This would apply even to a Fraktur typeface designed after 1945.

On the other hand, the organization has no problem with Latin typefaces that were actually used for Nazi publications, or with Latin types by German designers who are old enough to have served in the military before 1945.

There are other types that might evoke the wrong associations for this organization. I would be unlikely to use an Irish uncial type, because it would likely evoke thoughts of Ireland - unless, and this could occur, the organization were presenting a program on Jewish history in Ireland.

Georg, I meant that your explanation doesn't work.

But frankly I suspect that even if I understand
how you think this thing should work it wouldn't
really be relevant. But maybe I'm wrong.

hhp

Well, on my website the readers are still discussing which fonts are relevant. The reasons are interesting, but - sorry - mostly in german:
http://www.bleisetzer.de/tagebuch/typo-raetsel-iv.html

I try to explain what I mean next Sunday.

Georg
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BTW, your image files are unnecessarily large.
I did a conversion test on one of them and it went
down from over 400K to around 100K with no
real loss in quality.

hhp

Yes, hrant, that's true, I know.
Sorry about that. It spent more time to scan and to made the changes to the five fakes, as I had. I am not experienced with Photoshop. I am just a little dealer of used letterpress stuff.

Its 0:45 a.m. over here, I am just coming back from a meeting with some comrades. A little ceremony for the Day Of Re-Union With Middle Germany. A recitation about the history of Germany since 1945, we sang some songs and our national hymne with all strophes(?) (only the third one is the official hymne of this what is called BRD today. The others are not forbidden, but... well... there is a kind of social pressure not to sing it in public. You know what I mean.). Now I undress my parachutist boots - its very uncomforable to wear it in my age of 54 years, argghh. I don't know, who set up this trend for us national germans. Now I have to brush my teeth and to polish my bald head, before I go to bed.

I found a picture of you anywhere in the WWW. Was your family coming from south of Europe? That's me: http://www.bleisetzer.de/hintergrund.html German since I don't know... father's family lived as a german minority since three generations in Galicia, Poland further on, today Ukraine. From 1936 they lived in Warsaw where my father, his brother and his sister visited a kind of "high school". I don't know the exakt term in english. They left Galicia because this was a very poor part of the country. My grandfather was there since 1916 as a volunteer of Austrian Army. (Austrians and Germans are the same people. They decided to union rest of Austria and Germany after 1918, but the allies did not allow it). In Warsaw after General Pilsudski, who ruled Poland, died in 1935, the situation became very hard for the german minority. Lots of them very set under pressure, hit or killed. So my family saw it to become freedem, when the german Wehrmacht overtook Warsaw end of September 1939. My father and his brother went as volunteers to Wehrmacht and both fought in Charkow and Kursk/Orel. My father was wounded very hard and they flew him out - he was member of special forces, I do not want to say the name of these combats. Under all soldiers of the world, these german troops were seen as an elite. After the war, he could not go back to... well.. to where? He lost his homeland, there was Poland now, but he was german. His sister fought in the war, too. She joined the communist partizans. Funny, mh? She lived in West Poland, what is East Germany. I have a cousin, he's 48 yo or so... We love each others like brothers do. And we communicate in our poor english. I cannot speak polish, he cannot speak german. He is a judge and is very interested in polish history. Sometimes he sends me very old text to translate it into english. This are german texts from the year 1200. So old, I cannot understand it, but I found a guy from University in Hamburg, who helps. My cousin calls it polish history, but its in german.. Funny, too, mh? I hate this f... Hitler. He made dirty everything what someone like me loves... And this, sometimes, makes me very very sad.

Sry for bothering.

Georg
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Huh? Southern Europe?! I guess you don't know about the "ian" last-name suffix. Dunno, maybe I should say something romantically head-strong, like "Hey, I've been Armenian for over 3000 years!" Or: "My people had a Golden Age when yours were living in trees!" The truth is, I don't consider myself "pure" Armenian, even though I don't know of any ancestors of mine that were "non-Armenian". I've lived in Barcelona for 6 months, so maybe I'm ~1% Catalan? It feels more like 10%. And I've live in LA since 1986 (except for those 6 months - well, plus another 3 in Armenia) so what am I? LA isn't really American... Before that I grew up in Beirut. So what am I, a terrorist? Well, maybe just a little bit. You see, nothing is pure anything. Not type, not people.

And scientific field-testing of an idea requires a lot more than passion.

hhp

I really don't like seeing extensive quotes from Hitler on Typophile. They are sickening. If you must, do a link.

There must be something wrong: I don't see any Futura in the examples :-)

dr

Yah, where's the Futura? I know for certain that I've seen at least a few Nazi posters using the typeface. Obviously, that one could be just as Nazi as, say, Tannenberg. Though I like Tannenburg, I've never quite found a use for it. Perhaps beer bottles or a German deli advertisements. I have, though, used other Gothics as companion faces to Roman, which works nicely.

To be clear, I really never associated any Gothic faces with the Nazi regime, or Third Reich. Most of them evoke, for me and most others I know, a feel of the Middle Ages, or archaism. And the simpler, later German faces, such as Tannenburg, tend to remind people of Rock music and such things. Used in certain contexts they look German.

Or perhaps in Europe there really are bad associations. Here in the States, I don't think that happens much.

Next to a Swastika, Verdana even will look Nazi. Though a more 'German' (and period) typeface might cement such an idea.

Briän

Edit: For the record, I'm American. Though, ethnically, I'm mostly German, with a bit of Russian and Polish.

Futura? Yes, why not. Or Legende Script? Sure...

Here is the answer.
I am not able to translate all of it into english, sorry about that. May be, some others are able - and willing - to translate it? I don't know.

Shortform of answer:
This are _all_ originals (see pics in the blog entry).
It is an error to think, something like "Nazi fonts" did exist.
To announce it is part of how political correctness wants us to see Nazi. And its on you to follow it or not.

http://www.bleisetzer.de/tagebuch/aufloesung-typo-raetsel-iv.html

Georg
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It's an error to think denial will magically change people's minds.

hhp

Or truth, for that matter.