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re : banned : interesting! I wonder whether certain '90s practitioners of Norwegian black metal were aware of that?
by MisterOctober 8y ago
re : banned : interesting! I wonder whether certain '90s practitioners of Norwegian black metal were aware of that?
- lainga 8y agoSupport for blackletter was the default position of pre-WWII German nationalists. Hitler banned it during the war because, of all things, blackletter would have required two typesets for multi-lingual publications in occupied territories, and because it would have been hard for occupied populations to read (German was to become the new lingua franca, after all). Not that I would expect Varg to be that well-read on the vagaries of the wartime German military administration's printing office.