"Swing Kids" redirects here. For other uses, see Swing Kids (disambiguation).
The Swing Youth (German: Swingjugend) were a youth counterculture of jazz and swing lovers in Germany formed in Hamburg in 1939. Primarily active in Hamburg and Berlin, they were composed of 14- to 21-year-old Germans, mostly middle or upper-class students, but also including some in the working class.[1] They admired the "American way of life", defining themselves in swing music and opposing Nazism, especially the Hitler Youth (German: Hitlerjugend). They loosely structured themselves into “clubs” with names such as the Harlem Club, the OK Gang, and the Hot Club. This underground subculture, distinctly nonconformist with a focus on African-American music, was active in the German youth scene. Despite being largely apolitical and unstructured, the Swing Youth were targeted and, in some cases, repressed by the Nazi government.
^"The History of Swing Music". Vintage People. 2007. Archived from the original on 25 September 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2008.
The Swing Youth (German: Swingjugend) were a youth counterculture of jazz and swing lovers in Germany formed in Hamburg in 1939. Primarily active in Hamburg...
Guido Fackler described the Swingjugend embracing of American music and the "English style" as follows: "The Swingjugend rejected the Nazi state, above...
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Gertrud Koch, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Swingjugend White Rose R., Gaddy, K. (2020), Flowers in the gutter The true story...
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anything else, the attitudes of the population. The Swing Youth (German: Swingjugend) were a group of middle-class teenagers who consciously separated themselves...
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both, were banned as Negermusik, but remained very popular among the Swingjugend counterculture anyway and were always in very high demand on Nazi Germany's...
more than a thousand members in the late 1930s; and, most notably, the Swingjugend, middle-class youth who met in secret clubs in Berlin and most other...
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of German Maidens was derogatorily nicknamed by the counter-cultural Swingjugend "The League of German Mattresses", suggesting sexual promiscuity between...
another Jewish 'plot' upon German culture. The "Swing Kids" (German: Swingjugend) were a group of jazz and swing lovers in Germany in the 1930s, mainly...
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Kibbutz German Forest Hippie Hitler Youth Kreisau Circle Lebensreform Leipzig Meuten Swingjugend Völkisch movement White Rose Zionist youth movement...
Kibbutz German Forest Hippie Hitler Youth Kreisau Circle Lebensreform Leipzig Meuten Swingjugend Völkisch movement White Rose Zionist youth movement...
suffer like their contemporaries in Germany, the Hamburg and Berlin based Swingjugend (many of whom were imprisoned in concentration camps) and the working...
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stations and the film industry showcasing clips. In Nazi Germany, the Swingjugend, young rebels, defied the regime's cultural restrictions by embracing...
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Kibbutz German Forest Hippie Hitler Youth Kreisau Circle Lebensreform Leipzig Meuten Swingjugend Völkisch movement White Rose Zionist youth movement...
Kibbutz German Forest Hippie Hitler Youth Kreisau Circle Lebensreform Leipzig Meuten Swingjugend Völkisch movement White Rose Zionist youth movement...
Kibbutz German Forest Hippie Hitler Youth Kreisau Circle Lebensreform Leipzig Meuten Swingjugend Völkisch movement White Rose Zionist youth movement...
musicians. Such music became banned publicly in Nazi Germany. See also Swingjugend (swing kids). Die Neuordnung – "The New Order"; the formation of a hegemonial...
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