Sudetenland
Americannoun
noun
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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 • Dec. 16, 2025
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
The family do not know why Brixius had been awarded the Iron Cross but, because it was given in September 1939, it was assumed it was for action over Poland or the Sudetenland.
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2023
He said it in 1938, when Adolf Hitler was about to seize the Sudetenland, part of what was Czechoslovakia.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2023
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 "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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