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Old 05-03-2019, 03:30 PM   #1
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Here is a closer look at it. Why couldn't the Germans have used normal letters like everyone else?
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Here is a closer look at it. Why couldn't the Germans have used normal letters like everyone else?
Great close up, I'm converted- "m"- probably with a chipped die.

Those were "normal" letters to the Germans in that era.
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Old 05-04-2019, 06:09 PM   #3
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Here is a closer look at it. Why couldn't the Germans have used normal letters like everyone else?
I believe Lateinschrift became the German standard in 1941.
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