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Sudeten

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[soo-deyt-n, zoo-deyt-n] / suˈdeɪt n, zuˈdeɪt n /

noun

  1. Czech Sudety.  Also Sudetes a mountain range in E central Europe, extending along the N boundary of the Czech Republic between the Elbe and Oder rivers. Highest peak, 5,259 feet (1,603 meters).

  2. a native or inhabitant of the Sudetenland.

  3. Sudetenland.


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She was a Sudeten German, as it turned out: part of the sizable minority of Bohemian Germans in the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia, which Adolf Hitler annexed to Germany in 1939.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024

By 1938, it seemed that Britain and France were most concerned with avoiding another major war, so to defuse the situation, the Czechoslovak government granted the Sudeten Germans self-government.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The year before, a complacent Chamberlain had “saved the peace” at Munich, by forcing the Czechoslovak government to surrender the Sudeten territory to Germany.

From The Guardian • Sep. 1, 2019

Bahensky, a Sudeten German, was displaced as a young child from Czechoslovakia during World War Two.

From Reuters • Oct. 21, 2016

Clas, alias Voigt, arrived October 23, 1937, reported at the Sudeten Party headquarters and saw a man whom I was unable to identify.

From Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by Spivak, John L.