Sudeten

American  

[soo-deyt-n, zoo-deyt-n] / suˈdeɪt n, zuˈdeɪt n /

noun

1. 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).

2. a native or inhabitant of the Sudetenland.

3. Sudetenland.

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Example Sentences

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

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

The unfinished plan undertaken by Nazi Germany’s arms industry included tunnels in the Sudeten Mountains around Walbrzych, most famously below the Książ Castle, then known as Schloss Fürstenstein.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some 2.9 million so-called Sudeten Germans were expelled after 1945 by the Czech government, which blamed them for the Nazis' pre-war aggression against the country.

From US News