In The Movie Swing Kids questions 1. When and where did the events in the movie take place?
2. Who were the “Swing Kids”?
3. Describe the main characters: Peter, Thomas, Willie, Arvid.
4. What are Peter’s plans for the future?
5. Who did Thomas think he was saving from a beating?
6. Who was getting beat up? How did that change the situation?
7. What happened to Peter and Willie’s father?
8. What do you learn about the Gestapo in the scene in the music store?
9. How did Peter end up joining the Hitler Youth Movement?
10. How did the Gestapo brainwash the youth?
11. Why did the Gestapo close the Swing Club?
12. What happened to Thomas and Peter as they spent more time with the Hitler
Youth Movement?
13. What are the boys’ reporting on at the meetings?
14. How does Arvid show his resistance to the Fuhrer?
15. How has Thomas changed?
16. What happens to Arvid?
17. Why do you think Peter made the comments he did at dinner about being a Purist?
18. What is Peter delivering to people in the boxes? How does he find out what is in
them?
19. How is Peter and Thomas’ friendship changing? How do their views differ at this
point?
20. What additional information do we learn at this point about what happened to
Peter’s father and how it changed him?
21. What did Peter learn about his father from the letter?
22. “IF” you were a young man in the ear of this movie, would you have joined the
HJ (Hitler Youth)? Why or why not?
23. What’s your opinion on the Swing Era? Explain