Today, far right-wing people in Germany use fraktur on shirts, cars etc. - even though it were the Nazis who abolished it.
Alas, yes. (Though compare the Anarchistische Pogo Partei Deutschlands.)<p>Of course, these wannabe guys use the proper fraktur. They usually use the wrong s and don't care about proper ligatures.
A lot of them use "Olde English" style blackletter fonts instead of German Fraktur, possibly because they can't read it.
I wonder how much that's due to reverse polarization causing modern far right to copy Nazis from Hollywood or videogame depictions of Nazis, which tended to use Fraktur as a signifier.
> Today, far right-wing people in Germany use fraktur on shirts, cars etc. - even though it were the Nazis who abolished it.<p>And many of them use Fraktur wrongly (in particular: wrong usage of long vs round s; not using compulsory ligatures).
Point 2 in Eco's ur-facism essay:<p>"The rejection of modernism"
Same fun when they couldn't decide if they were for or against Sütterlin scripture.
They also like to drive Simson motorcycles.
Despite the Simson family being Jewish (and publicly calling out against the AfD).
They dress with "Fred Perry" -- look it up yourself, how paradox that is.
The right-wing likes to talk about the German heritage of the "Dichtern and Denker" (poets and thinkers) and yet the Third Reich was stupid enough to kill or at least exile most.
They like to talk about /clean blood/, /natural order/ despite biology having a different opinion which it clearly shows when inbreeding happens (also due to xenophobia).
Their /family values/ are indistinguishable from the islamists they pretend to fight.
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The list of paradoxes never ends.
...<p>You cannot argue with stupids
I’m in the process of learning Sütterlin / Kurrent for genealogical purposes. While Fraktur is easy to learn, Kurrent is just horrible, even though the textbook I used, written in 1995, still declares it a superior handwriting cruelly banned by the Nazis.
If you read the article, it's ideologically consistent - the main motivation in abandoning Fraktur was strategic (i.e. military), not ideological. I'm pretty sure the "actually Fraktur is Jewish" argument wouldn't even have come up if Hitler and Goebbels hadn't already pushed for adopting Latin script. The Nazis weren't exactly pragmatists but they were always opportunists.<p>Also the modern far-right in Germany has an undercurrent of monarchists, we've just lost the political language to label them as such - much like how we unironically refer to conservatives as "centrists" because referring to anyone but a nazi as "right-wing" is often implied to have certain undertones, although the conservative party that helped pass the Enabling Act was literally called the <i>Christian Center</i> Party.<p>And although the Nazis weren't exactly ideologically coherent - fascists generally aren't - the driving ideology in the modern German far-right (including within the AfD) is actually <i>völkisch nationalism</i> which the Nazis were at least making heavy use of in their propaganda.<p>I'd even argue remnants of völkisch nationalism even made it into the German constitution: it uses the term <i>Volk</i> and <i>Volkszugehöriger</i> (in Art. 116 Abs. 1 GG) without defining either of them. The definition of <i>Volk</i> instead had to be provided by a constitutional court ruling - German citizens plus <i>Volkszugehörige</i> - and that second term is defined in a seperate law (§ 6 BVFG) which uses a very narrow and arbitrary definition that's clearly a condensed bureaucratic remnant of a much broader ideological pre-existing definition (arguably the consequence of having to deal with a similar problem as laws trying to combat racism that want to avoid validating "race science" by pinning down exact definitions for each relevant category)[0].<p>Also in German popular culture the colloquial definition of "Deutsch" seems to be very much colored by <i>völkisch</i> ideas: someone who is "ethnically distinct" (e.g. skin color, eye shape) is generally regarded as a "migrant"/"foreigner" even if they are German citizens, speak fluent German, are culturally German and have multiple generations of direct ancestors who lived in Germany.<p>[0] Source: <i>Bundestag</i> white paper <i>"Zu den Begriffen „deutsches Volk“, „Deutsche“ und deutsche Volkszugehörigkeit“ im Grundgesetz"</i>:<p><a href="https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/643190/7855da277bbd3311dcf26fb17774d711/WD-3-026-19-pdf.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/643190/7855da277bbd33...</a><p>References:<p>Art. 116 GG: <a href="https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_116.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_116.html</a><p>§ 6 BVFG: <a href="https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bvfg/__6.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bvfg/__6.html</a>