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Originally Posted by Skybird
First time I learned about that letter "B" in "ARBEIT" being attached by a rebellious worker top down - I never noted it before. It put a smile on my face to imagine that even under those terrible conditions in the camp, at least some minds were capable to imagine this maybe symbolic but original form of resistence, and to carry it out - and the camp guards of the self-declared superior "Herrenrasse" not noticing it!
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Sorry to spoil the story a little, but it's unlikely to be upside down.
The first part of the 20th century saw an explosion of new fonts, some of
which used with this style of 'B'. The sign more likely to just be in a font
that is meant to have a top-heavy 'B'.
Ed: out of curiosity, here is the sign with the B flipped:
Strange, but not the most unusual font at the time by a long shot. I guess I have just been conditioned by years of
font conformity to view it as odd.
