The Nazis originally legislated that the proper German font was the old Gothic kind, with all the curly cues. One slogan read: "Feel German, think German, speak German, be German, even in your script." One type designer, Paul Renner, was arrested, in part for protesting the arrest of a teaching colleague and in part for a lecture he gave on the history of letterforms. Later, however, the Nazis changed their tune and declared that Gothic script was Jewish because they were unable to get a hold of it in their newly conquered territories and had to use Roman style fonts for their propaganda (pages 190-191). Paul Renner is still known today for designing the font Futura. Per Wikipedia, he did survive the war, dying in 1956.
~ From Just My Type:
A Book about Fonts by Simon Garfield.
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