Strengths and Weakness in School Ties and Swing Kids By Leonardo Garcia
Around the 1930’s-1950’s there was a large movement of anti semitism in Germany and the United States. In these two films they present two different sides of a story one is about being the only jewish teen in a catholic high school in Michigan where anti semitism is a fairly common occurrence, While the other story is a movement against the nazi socialist party about their censorship of western culture, music, fashion, western movies, and dancing, with a group of teenagers a part of the movement called “Swing Kids” who watch forbidden western movies, dance swing, play swing music, listen to Jewish/Negro artists, refuse to cut their hair, and pick fights with the local Hitler Youth. But many people ask what is anti semitism but anti…