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 • 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
Preceding the granting to Hitler of the Sudeten areas in Czechoslovakia, the entire Czech border espionage and terrorist activity was divided into sectors.
From Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by Spivak, John L.
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