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The Swing Boys

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September 2, 2013

In the 1930s, Hamburg was a bastion of swing. Like many young people at the time. Heinrich Dringelburg was crazy about this US import, and became what was known as a "Swing Boy". But when the Nazis came to power in 1933, swing was banned and many of its devotees arrested, including Heinrich Dringelburg.

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