Swing Kids
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The Swing Kids (German: Swingjugend) were a group of jazz and Swing lovers in the Germany of the 1930s, mainly in Hamburg (St. Pauli) and Berlin. They were composed of 14- to 18-year old boys and girls in high school, most of them middle- or upper-class students, but some apprentice workers as well. They sought the British and American way of life, defining themselves in Swing music, and opposing the National-Socialist ideology, especially the Hitlerjugend.
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See also
- German resistance
- Swing Kids (film)
- 1920s and 1930s subcultures
- Youth culture
- Zazou
- Negermusik
- Nightclub
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