T&S_HR_M1

HTR model for the handwriting of the worker Hilde Nordhoff (pseudonym) (*1920) and the teacher Roland Nordhoff (pseudonym) (*1907), a couple from rural Germany. She wrote in modern German, Latin script, including German umlauts and the special character ß. Some characters have leftovers from Gernan Kurrent, like an overline or curve above the u. He wrote mostly in German Kurrent and occasionally in Sütterlin, in Latin script, including German umlauts and some special characters (ß, ſ) that we partly modernized (to ß and s). German Giant I was used as a base model. The model was trained with letters from 1942 and 1943 by Laura Fahnenbruck and Andrew S. Bergerson (University of Missouri-Kansas City). The training data was transcribed to Ground Truth by a group of volunteers in countless hours in the public history project Trug&Schein: Ein Briefwechsel. Eine kritische Begegnung mit dem Alltag des Zweiten Weltkriegs – Schreib mit! (2011-2022). The large corpus of Hilde and Roland Nordhoffs letters span the years 1938 to 1946 and is published as transcripts on https://alltag-im-krieg.de/startseite.