Strahov Stadium X. Slet (10th All-Sokol Gathering) Gymnastics Exhibition Photo Album

Collection — Box: MSSP DC CC-0002

Identifier: MSSP_10006

Staff Only

Content Description

One photograph album documenting the X. Slet (10th All-Sokol Gathering) gymnastic and physical education exhibition in Prague's Strahov Stadium in 1938. The photographs depict adults, mostly men with some women, and children participating in group synchronized physical education and gymnastic routines and other sports and activities, including parades. There are some group photographs of participants and spectators. Most photos measure 2.25 x 2.25 inches with a few larger images measuring 5.25 x 3.25 inches.

Dates

Creation: 1938

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Biographical / Historical

The Sokol movement was its founded in Prague, then located in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the 1860s. Sokol exhibitions included large-scale coordinated and synchronized athletic, gymnastic, and phyical eduation routines for men, women, and children. Organizers hoped the events would develop community spirit and encourage national unity. The 1938 X. Slet (10th All-Sokol Gathering) attracted hundreds of thousands of participants and more spectators. The event was widely seen as an act of defiance against the encroachments of Nazi Germany.