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Sudeten, a. and n.|suːˈdeɪtən|
[a. Ger., the name of the Sudeten mountains in northeastern Czechoslovakia.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to or designating the predominantly German-speaking area of Czechoslovakia in the vicinity of the Sudeten mountains (the Sudetenland) which was annexed by Germany from 1938 to 1945. Freq. as Sudeten German.
1937Times 20 Oct. 13/2 (heading) Czechoslovakia and the Sudeten Germans. Ibid. 6 Dec. 11/5 (heading) Sudeten German quarrels. Ibid., Dissensions within the Sudetendeutsch Party. 1939Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 526 At the time of the annexation by Germany of the Sudeten areas of Czechoslovakia there were in the country some 5,000 refugees from the old Reich and from Austria. 1946W. S. Churchill Victory 131 Henlein, Sudeten-German leader, committed suicide. 1959W. F. Leopold in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 355 Sudeten Germans with Bavarian dialect adapt themselves slowly to Swabian. 1966S. Mann Collecting Playing Cards iv. 84 (heading) The Franconian or Sudeten pattern (Sudeten-deutsch). 1968[see Sudeten n. below]. 1974Listener 25 Apr. 530/2 The Sudeten ‘problem’ was being manipulated both by appeasers here and..by Hitler. 1982S. G. Duff Parting of Ways xv. 135 Gradually, up to 1933, the Sudeten Germans had become reconciled to the [Czechoslovak] Republic.
B. n. An inhabitant of the Sudetenland; a Sudeten German.
1938H. Nicolson Diary 13 May (1966) 341 The Sudetens could not approve of a pro-Russian and anti-German policy. 1943Amer. Speech XVIII. 200 The term Sudetens, extremely frequent in the news columns of 1938, did not exist before that year. 1968K. Martin Editor xii. 252 The Sudetens had some real grievances, even though they were the best-treated minority in Europe... The Czech government knew that their real problem had nothing to do with Sudeten grievances. |