Through Dancing Classes to Illegality : Dance in the Protectorate and Its Persecution

Abstract

This article describes bans on dancing in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during World War Two, circumvention of these bans and organisation of illegal dancing parties.

Keywords

• Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
• Swing Dance
• Second World War
• Cultural History
• History of Everyday Life