German "comedian" Böhmermann wants to cancel the pharmacy logo: "It's a Nazi sign"

Mainz - ZDF moderator Jan Böhmermann has asked German pharmacies to get a new logo. In his podcast "Fest & fluffy", the 41-year-old described the previous red Fraktur A as a "Nazi sign". It has to go "because the Nazis are behind it". But in doing so he revealed historical ignorance.

According to Böhmermann, while on vacation he noticed that the green cross was the dominant symbol for pharmacies almost everywhere in Europe. He then found out that the font used in the German pharmacy logo, Fraktur, was established during the Nazi era: "This logo that we have today was basically introduced in almost the same way in 1936." Böhmermann lectured that it was "still a Nazi sign, what's attached to German pharmacies".

Nazis banned Gothic font
Background: In a competition called by the pharmacies in 1936, a logo very similar to the current symbol won. At that time there was first a white cross and then the life rune in the more Gothic A. Today there is a snake winding around a chalice. Böhmermann's first misconception is that not everything created between 1933 and 1945 has to be a Nazi symbol.

On the other hand, Böhmermann apparently does not know that the Nazis had banned Fraktur writing in 1941 "on behalf of the Führer" as "un-German". The Reich Chancellery justified this decision by attributing the origin of the typeface to so-called "Schwabacher Judenlettern" (Schwabach Jewish letters). But the National Socialists were just as wrong historically as Böhmermann is today.

However, the ZDF man has a second argument against the traditional logo: "Also it really looks like shit." He calls on the pharmacies to part with it.

Source: Junge Freiheit