outland Germans

noun

Etymology

Calque of the German term Auslandsdeutsche.

Definitions

  1. Germans living abroad, in a foreign land.

    • Whatever dependence the Pan-German chauvinist had placed on outland Germans proved to be a broken reed.
    • The little figures, he tells them, represent, according to color, 200 to 50,000 outland Germans each.
    • And Bruno's name is "Bienenfeld" meaning that I would place him as what are in Cleveland anyway called "Donau Schwaben" i.e., outland Germans living in SE Europe […]

The neighborhood

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