Stop signs still had “stop”. Although for some reason I think they originally were just a red stop sign shape that had a smaller sign with the word “stop” added under it. For some reason that was a thing in rural areas for a while.
But like the signs on the corner that had the name of the street/road. And instead of street/road it has the German work for that. Streisb? I can’t make an estatest or however it was spelled, but the weird capital B with a tail that means “ss” .
But after WW2 they updated the legal street names to Angelicized names, I think as a result of a larger state/national law. It was something the locals didn’t want tho, and no one official was checking tiny villages, so they left the original signs up, even though that’s not the name of the street anymore?
Like the town Butcher had a giant old school sign with zero English or even the word Butcher. Now there’s little signs in English under all of them that says what it is. I think because they were trying to be a tourist destination, because literally all the architecture and landscape looked like you were really in 1800s Deutschland. Like, in school my German class (yeah, even towns over had the option of learning German until very recently) we took field trips there.
On a side note, my German teacher’s first memory was the Allies attacking the train that was carrying her to a concentration camp, then having to escape through the woods during the fighting. And I swear I’m not even that old now.
I could probably find some kind of article on it, because the whole thing is interesting… But unfortunately I already said it was next to my home town, and man, there are some people who really don’t like me on here, and I don’t want to put that info out.