Figure 1.--This is the Smiricích School in 1922. Smiricích is a Czech village about 120 kilometers east from Prague. It seems a typical Czech village school. The boys seemed dressed similarly to German children. |
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We have very limited information on Czechoslovakia at this time. The Czechs and Slovaks were two of the many restive minorities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After World War I Czechoslovakia was created, an independent state with both Czechs and Slovaks as well as other nationalities. Schools and the language of instruction was one of the difficulties that had to be confronted in this multi-national state. Here we do not yet have information on the Czech education system and language policies. Being formed out of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, we assume that there was a strong Austrian influence in the school system. The nationalities issue of course was used by Hitler in his efforts to obain the Sudentenland at the Munich Conference. The NAZIs claimed that the German minority was being abused. Of course the NAZIs did their best to stir up problems. We are unsure if the Germand indeed had legitimate complaints on how they were treated by the Czexhs who dominated Czechoslovakia. The Slovaks in eastern Czechoslovakia were also unhappy. This is a topic that needs to be addressed. The limited number of Czech images we have suggest that Czech boys dressed very similarly to German boys.
We have very limited information on Czechoslovakia at this time. The Czechs and Slovaks were two of the many restive minorities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After World War I Czechoslovakia was created, an independent state with both Czechs and Slovaks as well as other nationalities.
Schools and the language of instruction was one of the difficulties that had to be confronted in this multi-national state. This was just part of the larger language issue in a country with substantial minorities. Here we do not yet have information on the Czech education system and language policies.
Being formed out of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, we assume that there was a strong Austrian influence in the school system. We are unsure at this time as to changes made to the school system with the formation of Czechoslovakia.
The nationalities issue of course was used by Hitler in his efforts to obtain the Sudentenland at the Munich Conference. The NAZIs claimed that the German minority was being abused. Of course the NAZIs did their best to stir up problems. We are unsure if the Germand indeed had legitimate complaints on how they were treated by the Czechs who dominated Czechoslovakia. The Slovaks in eastern Czechoslovakia were also unhappy. This is a topic that needs to be addressed.
We do not have a lot of information about activities in Czech schools beyound the purely academic. We think such activiites were very limited. We do note boys doing various form of calesthetics, although we do not note sports competitions. This was the general pattern in German and Austrian schools which heavily influenced the Czech system.
The limited number of Czech images we have suggest that Czech boys dressed very similarly to German boys.
We have very limited information on individual Czech schools at this time. These individual school portraits provide a great deal of informatioin about both fashio and education trends over time. We have not found many named schools, but we have found seberal sgool images that are dated. This is the Smiricích School pictured here in 1922 (figure 1). Smiricích is a Czech village about 120 kilometers east from Prague. It seems a typical Czech village school. The boys seemed dressed similarly to German children. We notice an unidentified Prague primary school in 1931. We note an unidentified secondary school in 1934.
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