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Original Title: TIL of The Swing Youth were a youth counterculture of jazz and swing lovers in Germany formed in 1939. They admired the “American way of life”, defining themselves in swing music and opposing Nazism. With a focus on African-American music they were particularly spiteful of the Hitler Youth.