Florence, New Jersey, population 12,109, is home to one of the more unusual artifacts from World War II: Hitler’s toilet. From the story:
“…the toilet has all the traits of a toilet from a ship—including an open side slot for seawater to be pumped in. The knobs on the faucet bear text written in Blackletter—the famous and classically German family of typefaces that Hitler adored. (The Nazis, in 1933, chased typographer Jan Tschichold out of Germany for advocating use of sans-serif fonts instead of Blackletter, among other design travesties.)”
Gasp! Sans serif?!? Just when you thought the Nazis couldn’t be any more evil.
Tschichold went on to design the Sabon font in 1967; one of its earliest uses is in Bradbury Thompson‘s Washburn College Bible.
