Swingjugend (Swing Kids)

Swingjugend (or Swig Kids) were a   group of adolescents that opposed the Hitler Youth. In contrast to strict militant enforcement of Nazi culture, the Swing Youth drew much from British/American influences and celebrated jazz music. Often joined together in dance bars. Went against German culture and standards, socially and politically. Heinrich  Himmler ordered all swing bars closed, and all participants sent to concentration camps.

Conspiracy of Silence
 The Swingjugend's purpose in the midst of a Nazi Regime-ruled country was, simply put, to stay out of its social and political affairs. Generally, the Nazis tried to combine both in their pursuit of alienation (such as the development of the Hitler Youth) by enforcing traditional values in hand with a militant structure of assembly, to stir nationalistic ideals and feelings within the younger generations. And to the Swingjugend, it only meant a restriction of both sexual and social desires.



 "British and American music was not actually banned in Nazi ' Germany ' [1], but clearly those with an interest in African-American culture would naturally be antipathetic to the Nazis' Aryanist ideals, and swing clubs tended to be open to association with Jewish friends. 

 Members of swing clubs defined themselves by the term Lottern (sleaziness) and their musical interests went hand-in-hand with a desire to undermine the sexual mores of Nazi orthodoxy." 

Due to the political situation of Nazi Germany, swing clubs (where the Swingjugend typically danced to American Jazz) were highly frowned upon, and many of them went underground. To protect their culture of Anti-Nazism and Jazz, to practice their somewhat-free expression through 'rebellious' dancing, the Swingjugend disappeared from the view of the Nazi party, silencing themselves from the nationalistic outsiders. Write the first section of your page here.

Agency/Structure
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