Swingjugend
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German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Swing + Jugend, a take on Hitlerjugend.
Proper noun
Swingjugend f (proper noun, genitive Swingjugend)
- (historical) a jazz-loving, non-conformist youth subculture in Nazi Germany
- 1983 June 3, “Zwölf Jahre Doppelgesicht”, in Die Zeit:
- Amerikanische Tanzrhythmen als Elemente der Verspottung einer hehren Weltanschauung. Die Swingjugend, mit den langen Haaren und dem eigenen Jargon, als geheime Gegenschar zur HJ, unzackig und lässig.
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Declension
Declension of Swingjugend
Further reading
Swing-Jugend on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
