Sudetenland

American  

[soo-deyt-n-land, zoo-deyt-n-lahnt] / suˈdeɪt nˌlænd, zuˈdeɪt nˌlɑnt /

noun

1. a mountainous region in the N Czech Republic, including the Sudeten and the Erzgebirge: annexed by Germany 1938; returned to Czechoslovakia 1945.

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Sudetenland British  

/ suːˈdeɪtənˌlænd /

noun

1. Also called: the Sudeten.  a mountainous region of the N Czech Republic: part of Czechoslovakia (1919–38; 1945–93); occupied by Germany (1938–45)

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Example Sentences

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said over the weekend that Mr. Putin harbors expansionist ambitions akin to the Nazis after absorbing the Sudetenland in 1938.

From The Wall Street Journal

Think of the September 1938 meeting in Munich, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and other European leaders met with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler to forge an agreement allowing Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for Hitler’s pledge to not invade any other Northern European countries.

From Salon

Other treaty violations followed as the Nazi government annexed Austria, then the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia, where many ethnic Germans lived, and finally the rest of Czechoslovakia.

From Literature

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

In the Sudetenland, the future typewriter-seller fell in love with a young Wilhelm Müller—a pacifist, poet, and aspiring musician.

From Slate