Sudetenland

[soo-deyt-n-land, zoo-deyt-n-lahnt]

noun

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

Sudetenland

/ 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)

Example Sentences

If such a deal is forced through, there may indeed be “peace,” but it would not be durable peace, founded on Ukrainian independence, but would rather resemble more the “peace in our time” that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain proclaimed in 1938 after signing the Munich accord, which surrendered the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany—and paved the way for Hitler’s troops to broaden their invasion through all of Europe.

From Slate

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

So in that view, it's like giving Hitler the Sudetenland.

From Salon