The Zazous were a youth subculture in occupied France whose followers listened to jazz/swing music and who were ultimately targeted as a bunch of undesirables, with members of the JPF (the French youth fascist movement, analagous to the Hitler Youth in Germany) attacking them in the street, notably by forcibly cutting off their long hair. At a time when just making an insulting gesture to a German soldier on the street could earn you a hard time from the Gestapo, listening to what the Nazis considered to be degenerate music was a bit of a political statement in itself.
The Zazous were a youth subculture in occupied France whose followers listened to jazz/swing music and who were ultimately targeted as a bunch of undesirables, with members of the JPF (the French youth fascist movement, analagous to the Hitler Youth in Germany) attacking them in the street, notably by forcibly cutting off their long hair. At a time when just making an insulting gesture to a German soldier on the street could earn you a hard time from the Gestapo, listening to what the Nazis considered to be degenerate music was a bit of a political statement in itself.