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5th July 2009, 20:48
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Re: Reading old German hand writing
You have to be extremely cautious with WW2 Sütterlin handwriting. Apart from showing individual handwritings in any case, the Sütterlin script in the early 40s was in a status of transition. The NSDAP regime abolished the Sütterlin and "Schwabacher Fraktur" in 1941 for ideological reasons and replaced it with a more modern handwring. Not only at the schools, but also in every-day life.
Thus the "old, conservative hares" of the Luftwaffe wrote a more or less "clean" Sütterlin", whereas the younger "rookies" chose to write a Sütterlin mingled with the more modern letters of the "Normalschrift". The Nazis wanted them to do so - most people don´t know this. Regards Fran 
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