The Nazis initially promoted Fraktur and Schwabacher because they were considered Aryan, but they abolished them in 1941, claiming that these letters were Jewish.
Nazisterne bifaldt til at begynde med brugen af fraktur og Schwabacher, da de blev betragtet som ariske, omend de afskaffede dem i 1941, idet man fandt at bogstaverne var jødiske.