Forever Swing

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persons” (page 151). Also, the German government did an outstanding job of using propaganda to deny the truth about the camps. When the reports about the camps were believed, the government quickly went to work to repress the terror and convince the German population that nothing horrible was happening.
In the film Swing Kids, the main characters are Peter, Thomas, and Arvid. They, along with many other German youth, maintain their “business as usual” by attending legal swing parties. Most of the music was banned by the government, but the swing kids insisted on not letting them take musical expression away from them. Record stores changed the labels on records so they could continue to sell swing music. The swing kids developed a secret coded language that they could speak to each other to communicate the location of a party or just to give each other hope. Even though the government was stripping them of their rights to the music and their dance, the swing kids carried on ...

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