In 1863, the first Sokol movement, called the Southern Sokol, was founded. It was dissolved in 1876. The following year, the Sokol Association was founded in Ljubljana - Ljubljanski Sokol, which became the leading Sokol movement in Slovenia during the expansion of the movements at the end of the 19th century and before World War I. During this period, Viktor Murnik played a major role, reviving especially the association's professional activities. At the founding of the Yugoslav state, which was supported by the Sokol movement, the Sokoli were co-founders of the Yugoslav Sokol Federation, whose headquarters were in Ljubljana until 1929. In 1929, after the onset of the dictatorship of King Alexander on January 6, the government passed a law on the Sokol movement of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which included the Yugoslav Sokol movement, and the seat was transferred to Belgrade. Until 1935, the Sokol movement was strongly supported by liberal politics and after 1935 there was a strong anti-Sokol policy especially in the western, Catholic, parts of the country. In Slovenia, the power was taken over by Catholic circles, which opposed the Sokol movement. There was also an internal Sokol conflict, which was reflected in the so-called Tabor process. At the time of the fascist-nazi invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the division of Slovenia, the Sokol organization went underground. In the Ljubljana region, now part of the Kingdom of Italy, one part of the Sokol movement co-founded the PIF or Liberation Front, and the other part of the Sokol movement founded a War Council with the Sokol Legion, which also reflected the Sokol polarization of the late 1930s and the Tabor process. In 1941, the two groups discussed cooperation, but this never happened. In 1945, the Sokol movement ended their activities under their name and joined the new gymnastics organization at the last session of the Sokol delegates on July 8, 1945. As part of our master's thesis, we were interested in the Slovenian media reporting on the Sokol movement during the occupation of 1941-45, which we began to follow a month before the attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. We reviewed the publications of the daily newspapers of the liberal and Catholic political camps between March 1, 1941, and July 8, 1945, namely the newspapers Jutro, Slovenec, Slovenski dom, Slovenski narod on one hand and the reporting of the OF Slovenski poročevalec newspaper on the other. All posts are also included in this work. The contributions were divided into several periods. The period before the invasion of the occupier describes the numerousness of the Sokol movement, as the liberal newspapers reported daily on the events in Sokol. After the occupier invaded Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941, the content of the publications changed dramatically, as no newspapers reported on the Sokol movement except for its dissolution and liquidation. From 1942 to 1944, members of the Sokol organization were mostly mentioned in legal newspapers as collaborators in the Liberation Front and communists, but there were no reports of the Sokol War Council and the Sokol Legion. The purpose of this master’s work was to review the story of the Sokol movement during World War II through the media (newspapers) and thus contribute to an additional view of the history of the Sokol movement in Slovenia.
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