Answer: Such a waste Herr Knopp: "Such a waste - all that determination, for nothing. Answer: Thomas Thomas tells the HJ leaders that his father often complains about the state of political affairs in Germany, but he's too weak to do anything. The Nazis arrest his father anyway. Answer: ashes Peter is shocked when he rips open one of the boxes and finds ashes. Answer: you don't know who your friends are Arvid says this in a conversation with Thomas: 'Quiz time: got your glasses on?
Answer: Thomas When Peter and Thomas get into an argument at Peter's house, Thomas says "Do you want me to re-" but catches himself before he says "report you. Answer: he slits his wrist He slits his wrist with one of his swing records. He knows that the Nazis would kill him eventually anyway, so he would rather take his own life.
Who are their guests? Answer: Dr. Keppler offers to get his medical bag since Thomas has been beaten up. Answer: umbrella As Peter is being driven away to a work camp in the back of a truck, Willi runs after him, holding up his umbrella, yelling 'Swing Heil! They have a good time, dancing and enjoying the music. Leaving the club, Arvid who has a club foot can barely keep up as the other boys run off. To apologize to Arvid, Peter and Thomas steal a radio which Peter knows was stolen from a ransacked Jewish home from a bakery.
Thomas accuses his father of insulting Hitler, hoping to cause trouble for him, but is unnerved when the Nazis come to his home and take his father away. Driven to Suicide : Arvid kills himself by slitting his wrists with a broken record in a bathtub, a reference back to the scene when he got beat up, rather than passively partake in the murders the Nazis are commiting. Swing Kids is a fictional story rooted in actual events that took place in Nazi Germany in the late s.
Arvid is ardently anti-Nazi, perhaps because he has the most to fear. They beat Arvid , break his record and hurt his hand badly so that he might not be able to play. They did this because he was carrying swing music and he was accused of being a Jew lover and supporter when they attacked him. What were Peter's opinions of why the Jewish professors were terminated from the university? What special " gifts " did Herr Schumler give the Muller family?
Peter is captured by the pursuing Nazis officers. Thomas runs to Peter's home and notifies his mother. Peter is saved from going to a labor camp because of the efforts of Herr Knopp. Knopp informs Peter that he was able to save him by signing Peter up for the HJ.
Peter say he will not join - no matter what happens to him. He says how he quit school and wandered around from job to job until he heard Hitler speak one day in Munich. Hitler made him feel like he could help rebuild Germany and gave him new hope and a goal for his life. Peter listens, but is not impressed by the story. When Peter gets home he tearfully apologizes for making his mother worry.
She sits him down to cut his hair and he says again that he will not join The HJ. To please his mother, Peter agrees and allows her to cut his hair. Thomas notes that it is the perfect cover to be an HJ during the day and a Swing Kid at night. In a classroom, the boys watch a film warning them about the danger posed by the Jews. The film narrator claims that the Nazis are trying to stop the Jews from controlling the world's economy.
The HJs take the record, smash it, and continue on to beat up Arvid when he tries to escape. Then Emile , a former swing kid and former friend, but now a sadistic, merciless and bullying HJ, beats Arvid severely and crushes his fingers with his foot. Arvid wakes up in the hospital to find that his friends are there with him.
Then he tells Peter and Thomas that Emile broke his fingers, but he can still play as Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt did. In school, Emile is giving a boxing lesson to the HJs and asks for volunteers.
Thomas rises to Emile's challenges. Initially, Thomas is easily beaten by Emile. After Emil turns his back, Thomas punches him. Both boys become badly battered and bloodied, but Emile has Thomas against the ropes until Peter climbs into the ring and stops the fight.
Later, at Arvid's apartment, Peter describes the fight blow by blow to Arvid and Otto. The boys smoke and drink, but Peter and Thomas decline saying that the HJ leaders "check their breath" for cigarette smoke. Thomas says how boring the HJ is - comparing it to just hanging out at Arvid's. Peter accuses Arvid of having become reclusive since his beating by the HJ.
Peter tells Arvid of an upcoming swing party, but Arvid again refuses the invitation. Peter is surprised to see the girl there and they jitterbug like crazy people until the dance is raided by Gestapo agents and a squad of HJ. The HJ and Gestapo take people's names at the door and beat those who do not leave right away. Peter, Thomas, and Evey barely escape out the back door.
The boys are sent to an HJ camp in the countryside for training and activities. They practice shooting, run races, and live in tents outdoors. The boys are given medals for their achievements. Thomas excels at all activities with the support of Emile.
It is clear that Thomas is beginning to enjoy the success and attention he is getting in the HJ. Peter is approached by Herr Knopp who congratulates him on his progress in the HJ and offers to send the family on a vacation through the Nazi "Strength Through Joy" program - which provided inexpensive or free vacations for working-class families.
Peter seems grateful until Herr Knopp asks him to spy on his boss - the book seller. Peter goes to work the next day and secretly searches the office while the owner is on the telephone in the back room. Peter finds a book on the shelf that contains several forged birth certificates. As his boss ends his phone conversation Peter quickly puts the papers back in the book.
He is then sent to deliver another book to the same lady he visited earlier. The lady invies Peter in for tea. As he's waiting, Peter notices a photo of another man with a violin. The lady tells him that the photo is her husband, a Jewish musician who was once a student of Peter's father. She reveals that her husband was also killed probably after being arrested by the Nazis and she has changed her name to avoid being picked-on for having been married to a Jew.
Over tea, she explains how Peter's father got arrested after giving a speech at the university defending the Jewish teachers who had been fired after the Nazis took over in She says Peter's father was a hero, but Peter doesn't think so.
He says his father left his family with nothing and that the Jews must have been guilty of something to have been expelled. Frau Linge disagrees, but realizes that Peter is falling under the spell of the Nazis. Peter runs to a nearby bridge where he tears up one of the forged birth certificates and throws it into the river.
Thomas sneaks up on Peter and scares him - pretending to be arresting him. Peter is upset and Thomas apologizes. Thomas shows off his new motorized bicycle-- given to him by Emile as part of his new position in the motorized HJ. Thomas offers to give Peter a ride, but he refuses and Thomas rides off.
Peter then asks Thomas if the HJ asked him to talk to him. Thomas is surprised and upset at Peter's suspicion which he blames on Arvid - who Thomas calls a weirdo who "sees things backwards. At the next HJ meeting, the boys are required to stand up and report anything suspicious they have seen or heard from neighbors or family. To Peter's shock, Thomas stands up and reports that his own father has made comments against Hitler - calling him a "madman" who threatens to ruin Germany. Peter, when asked, says he has nothing to report - even though he knows what the book seller is doing.
In the street it is now early October , Peter and Evie stand with a crowd listening to a radio report of Hitler's bloodless takeover of the Sudetenland - a region of Czechoslovakia inhabited by many Germans.
Peter seems upset, but everyone else seems proud of the latest Hitler accomplishment. In , Hitler took over both Austria and Czechoslovakia without a fight. This made many Germany people proud that their country was strong enough to assert itself again. Hitler took the Sudetenland in , but at the start of the movie we were told that it was ! At a local club Arvid is performing with his group - playing a song by his hero - the Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt.
At a nearby table, three Nazi Luftwaffe air force officers like his style and offer him money to play one traditional German song. He refuses and quits working at the club, saying that there are no more German songs, only Nazi songs. He tells the people in the club that by just sitting there, doing nothing while the Nazis kill and persecute "Czechs, Poles, Gypsies, and Jews.
Thomas concludes with a threat: "You know if I were you, I wouldn't be worried about anybody but myself, because we're coming after you next. Thomas is upset that Peter is siding with Arvid and calls Peter's father a "Jew-lover.
Thomas then walks off down the street - alone. Arvid goes home where he gets in the bathtub and commits suicide by slitting his wrists with a broken record. Arvid understood that it was just a matter of time before the Nazis DID come for him. He also did not want to be any part of what the Nazis were doing. So, he chose to determine his own fate. Thomas shows up at the funeral , but Peter refuses to acknowledge him - blaming him for Arvid's death.
Peter mockingly criticizes him saying that the food isn't all from Germany, so they should not eat it. He also claims that they shouldn't listen to the slow jazz music which Herr Knopp has playing, or drink the alcohol he has brought to the supper. Knopp sees that he is not welcome although he appeared impressed at Peter's criticism and politely leaves.
Peter's mother reprimands and Peter responds by telling her, in more direct words, that he will not have Herr Knopp take the role of her husband.
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