Abstract
On March 4, 1919 some German residents went on the streets of many Czechoslovak cities to express their disagreement with the current political and economic situation. It provoked a harsh and violent clash with the security State forces; there was spilled blood in many cities.
Those of Czechoslovak Germans who were identifying themselves with the idea of "Sudetendeutschtum" immediately made of this tragedy their "sight of memory". In the present study, the attention is drawn to the German Gymnastic Association (Deutscher Turnverband), one of the biggest "Sudeten German" organizations.
Mainly through the analysis of the Association's journal is reconstructed the image that the German Gymnastic Association generated about the March events. In this journal one may also find many indications pointing out not only the multiplication of the imperative image of March 4, 1919, but also its differentiated reception.
Members of the German Gymnastic Association have not forgotten the March bloodshed even after their forced expulsion from Czechoslovakia. It is possible, at least via some signs, to read in their post-war literary production how their perception of March 4, 1919 modified and what enlargement of meaning and what impact this narrative finally received.