Swing Kids
Swing Kids
The Swing Youth 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. They admired the "American way of life", defining themselves in swing music and opposing Nazism, especially the Hitler
"How I envy the young. For them everything is so clear. Things seem to be either one way or another. It is only with a little age that you begin to see life as a series of compromises. But even in compromising one must draw a line."
"They fought for the freedom that bound them together."
"Isnt it best to know what youre getting into... before you agree to get involved in it?"
"Robert Sean Leonard - Peter Müller"
"In a world on the brink of war. You either march to one tune or dance to another."
"Kenneth Branagh - SS-Sturmbandführer Knopp"
"Whats the matter with all of you? Cant you see whats happening? Are you afraid to look? We are murdering Austrians. Next itll be the Czechs, and the Poles, not to mention the Gypsies, and the Jews- its unmentionable! You think that just because youre not doing it yourself, youre not a part of it? Well, Im sick and tired of doing my part!"
"If you side with the Nazis, Thomas, then were at war."
"Christian Bale - Thomas Berger"
