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he Swing Youth of Hamburg at some point had contacts with another famous resistance movement, when three members of the WeiÃŸe Rose ("White Rose") developed a sympathy for the Swing youth. No formal cooperation arose, though these contacts were later used by the Volksgerichtshof ("People's Court") to accuse some Swing Kids of anarchist propaganda and sabotage of the armed forces. The consequent trial, death sentences and executions were averted by the end of the war.

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A youth movement that started in Hamburg in 1939 and spread to Berlin and other German cities.

The movement was a challenge to Hitler announcing that all German adolescents had to join a Nazi youth movement.

They challenged the Nazi image of youth by growing their hair and wearing fashionable clothes.

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Arvid : I would rather belong to any one... ANYONE, than belong to the Nazis like you do.

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The measures against them ranged from cutting their hair and sending them back to school under close monitoring, to the deportation of the leaders to concentration camps.This mass arrest encouraged the youth to further their political consciousness and opposition to National Socialism. They started to distribute anti-fascist propaganda. In January 1943, GÃ¼nter Discher, as one of the "ringleaders" of the Swing youth, was deported to the youth concentration camp of Moringen.

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Though they were not an organized political opposition organization, the whole culture of the Swing Kids evolved into a non-violent refusal of the civil order and culture of National Socialism.

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Apart from loosely tied street gangs, kids mostly from working-class backgrounds who would enact in physical conflict with the Hitler Youth members, one particular underground faction was formed around a music genre that was on the rise in the 1930s: Swing.

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These youngsters, dubbed the Swing Kids, nurtured a fascination with American Jazz and English clothes. Initially, the Swing Kids appeared in Hamburg, among the youth who attended the Gymnasium (high school for top achieving students likely to attend College), where they took obligatory English and French lessons.