Hitler Youth, textbook racism, and swing music as rebellion — young people in Nazi Germany

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Hitler Youth, textbook racism, and swing music as rebellion — young people in Nazi Germany

GCSE History

Nazi Germany targeted children from their first day at school - rewriting the curriculum, enrolling them in the Hitler Youth, and training boys for war and girls for motherhood. But not every young person fell into line: the Edelweiss Pirates, the Swing Youth, and the White Rose show that dissent was possible, even in a totalitarian state.

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