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In Nazi Germany, jazz was an act of defiance

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The Nazis denounced jazz music as "degenerate art," despite its widespread popularity in Germany. Amid crackdowns on freedom of expression, groups of jazz-loving teenagers formed the Swing Youth in rebellion.

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