Abstract
The study contemplates the creation of war monuments commemorating the victims od the Great War in Czechoslovakia by analyzing the 20-year preparation and implementation of the monument in Jilemnice in North Bohemia. It also captures the fate of the monument during the Nazi occupation and in the second half of the 1940s after liberation of Czechoslovakia.
Through a detailed study of archival documents, two periods of efforts to establish the monument are reconstructed. Tje ideological tone of the monument is also evaluated as well as the individual contribution of the architect Blahomir Podpěra, the autor of the monument.