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Fact is that, though they can find plenty of substitutes for blacklisted symphonies and operas, Nazis on dancing bent hardly know which way to turn. Last month an article in Die Spielschar, organ of the Hitler Youth Movement, moped long and heavily over this question. Die Spielschar agreed that the motions prescribed by swing are unworthy of a sober man, but protested that rump-slapping peasant dances were equally inappropriate for sophisticated Germans. With these two categories of dancing verboten, there would be nothing left but waltzes. "For those who seek a way to graceful and natural German dancing," sighed...
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