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Jazz as Defiance: The Swing Youth in Nazi Germany

Despite being denounced as 'degenerate art' by the Nazis, jazz music remained popular in Germany, leading groups of jazz-loving teenagers to form the Swing Youth in rebellion against crackdowns on freedom of expression.

27 May, 12:47 — 27 May, 12:47
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