21 Dec 2015, 3:50 pm
pawelk1986 wrote:
frenchmanflats wrote:
The Nazis hated the "Jazz Age" They called it "negro music". This was a term used by the Nazis during the Third Reich to signify musical styles and performances by African-Americans that were of the Jazz and Swing music genres coming from America(in particular New York City) in the 1920s. Secondly, the Jazz music was popular in Berlin. Jazz music was offensive to Nazi ideology, because it was often performed by blacks and a number of Jewish musicians. The Swing Kids gave the impression of being apolitical, similar to their zoot suiter counterparts in North America.
I once watched German movie "Swing kids" about Swing subculture in Nazi Germany, about young open minded Kids, but this attitude was not liked in Nazi Germany
That was a good movie.
21 Dec 2015, 4:10 pm
22 Dec 2015, 2:31 am
pawelk1986 wrote:
frenchmanflats wrote:
The Nazis hated the "Jazz Age" They called it "negro music". This was a term used by the Nazis during the Third Reich to signify musical styles and performances by African-Americans that were of the Jazz and Swing music genres coming from America(in particular New York City) in the 1920s. Secondly, the Jazz music was popular in Berlin. Jazz music was offensive to Nazi ideology, because it was often performed by blacks and a number of Jewish musicians. The Swing Kids gave the impression of being apolitical, similar to their zoot suiter counterparts in North America.
I once watched German movie "Swing kids" about Swing subculture in Nazi Germany, about young open minded Kids, but this attitude was not liked in Nazi Germany
Many of these "Swing Kids" were sent to the Eastern Front or into concentration camps. Heinrich Himmler,head of the SS, wrote to Reinhard Heydrich to clamp down of the Swing Kid movement
