In Swing Kids: The Hitler Jugend

The "right thing" is, by nature, something that is an opinionated concept. Many people could be doing something they see as correct while other people believe that thing could be awful. Take, for example, the holocaust in Germany. Adolf Hitler was in charge of Germany and made many statements supporting the mass genocide of jewish people. Looking back at it today, most people will see this as something horrible. Supporting the mass genocide of a group of people without any real reason seems completely ludicrous. However, in that era of Germany, many people supported the idea. They had the Hitler Jugend, also known as the Hitler Youth, who were training to become a Nazi and fight for what Hitler was supporting. "Heil Hitler" was a common greeting
Swing music is a faster form of jazz music widely popular in this era. Swing was very easy to dance to, as very evident in this movie. Many swing dances were structured and designed for two people to dance. This fast music definitely inspired some actions taken by the swing kids. First of all, the music itself was obviously adorned by these kids. This meant that they also loved the people making the music. This was controversial in Germany because of people like Benny Goodman, a jewish swing artist that is widely regarded as the "king of swing." H.J's would often harassed and attack swing kids on the street because of this. The music reflect the lives of the kids because they like to live life in the moment as opposed living for the future like the H.J's and most other people were doing in this time period. One scene in Swing Kids that showcases this is the scene in the music shop. Peter is in the music shop searching through music when he notices a girl he likes also browsing music. He brings her into the listening room to listen to a song and they end up dancing with the door open outside, having a good time. They both get yelled at by the store owner because Peter never intended on actually purchasing the music, but he instead wanted just to listen and dance for fun. This shows the influence of swing music because it shows that Peter didn't want to be in an orderly way, instead he wanted to follow the