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Gestapo|gəˈstɑːpəʊ, gɛ-|
[G., acronym f. the initial letters of Geheime Staats-Polizei, Secret State-Police, set up by Hermann Göring in Prussia, 1933, and extended to the whole of Germany in January 1934.]
The secret police of the Nazi regime in Germany. Also transf.
1934New Republic 18 July 249/2 The names and significance of the..semi-military organizations in Germany..are:..The Geheime Staats Polizei, usually called the Gestapo, the secret state police of Prussia. 1937N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Nov. 1/3 The spokesmen of the regime,..are taking every opportunity..to ridicule the idea that every German servant girl abroad is a disguised Gestapo agent or a spy. 1940Mind XLIX. 222 Morality..becoming nothing more than subservience to the decrees of a dictator with his Ogpu or Gestapo at his back. 1944G. B. Shaw Everybody's Political What's What? xxiv. 224 The municipal statesman sends his sanitary Gestapo into an unhealthy private house and prosecutes the tenant. 1966L. P. Davies Psychogeist xii. 109 My private Gestapo has already brought the news. |