Sudeten
Americannoun
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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).
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a native or inhabitant of the Sudetenland.
Example Sentences
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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
Steinl, a Sudeten German, was recognized in 1979 as Righteous Among the Nations, Israel’s highest honor to those non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.
From Washington Times
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
Bahensky, a Sudeten German, was displaced as a young child from Czechoslovakia during World War Two.
From Reuters
The Unitarian leaders were shocked and outraged in late September of 1938 over the Munich Pact, in which the British and French formally ceded the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia to the Nazis.
From Time
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