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2. The Germans' Sonnwendfeier: From folk festival to radical right-wing mobilizing ritual
- Creator:
- Wingfield, Nancy M.
- Format:
- bez média and svazek
- Type:
- model:article and TEXT
- Subject:
- Bund der Deutschen (BdD), celebration, invented tradition, Sonnwendfeier, and Sudetendeutsche Partei (SdP)
- Language:
- Czech
- Description:
- This article analyzes the transition of German summer solstice celebrations in the Bohemian Lands from folk festivals to radical right-wing mobilizing rituals between the turn of the twentieth century and 1938. During the interwar period, these celebrations were a response to the historic and/or invented traditions of the First Republic, which were at the intersection of Czech (-oslovak) national identity as a construction of linguistic-cultural affiliation. The transformation of the Sonnwendfeier to a modern, mass, radical right-wing tool for organizing and maintaining a racial community parallels the growing radicalization of the nationally identifying Germans across Habsburg Central Europe between the world wars. Summer solstice celebrations played an important role in the construction of a Sudeten German community from the bottom up during the 1930s. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou
- Rights:
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ and policy:public