Sudetenland
Proper noun
Meaning
Sudetenland
A region of Bohemia.
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Examples
Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution, p. 222. Following the Sudetenland Crisis, the SD then took part in operations against Poland.
Chamberlain's address met with the approval of the House.sfn Chamberlain arrives in Munich, September 1938 With Austria absorbed by Germany, attention turned to Hitler's obvious next target, the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
Correspondingly, SD affiliated units, including the Einsatzgruppen followed German troops into Austria, the Sudetenland, Bohemia, Moravia, Poland, Lithuania, as well as Russia.
Focusing on the Sudetenland with its 3 million ethnic Germans and the disharmony there which the Czech government could not seem to remedy, Hitler set Heydrich’s SD in motion there in what later came to be known as "Case Green".
Following the Munich Agreement in 1938, Plzeň became literally a frontier town, after the creation of the Sudetenland moved the Third Reich borders to the city's outer limits.
Germany was now able to walk into the Sudetenland without firing a shot.