Gleichschaltungn.
/ˈɡlʌɪxʃaltʊŋ/ The standardization in authoritarian states of political, economic, and cultural institutions. Also transferred.Other parts of speech related to the German word (e.g. gleichschalten v. transitive, to impose Gleichschaltung upon; gleichgeschaltet participial adjective) are also occasionally found in English contexts.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > pervasive government or state control > standardization
Gleichschaltung1933
1933 Week-End Rev. 12 Aug. 149/2 The only test can be whether or not the efforts to Gleichschalten Austria continue.
1934 Surv. Internat. Affairs 1933 ii. i. 140 The new masters of the Reich had succeeded in carrying out their revolutionary programme of Gleichschaltung far enough to have changed the whole face of German life.
1935 S. Lewis It can't happen Here xv. 159 His ripe experience in the Gleichshaltung of Mississippi.
1937 W. H. Auden in W. H. Auden & L. MacNeice Lett. from Iceland v. 57 You would, hearing honest Oswald's call, Be gleichgeschaltet in the Albert Hall.
1940 Economist 31 Aug. 280/2 Holland under German control... Slowly the Gleichschaltung takes place. Many trade unions and similar organizations are unified.
1941 A. Koestler Scum of Earth 209 It looked as if France were already gleichgeschaltet before we even knew the armistice terms.
1950 Ann. Reg. 1949 264 The heavy hand of Soviet gleichschaltung descended on art, literature, and even music.
1964 D. Daiches Crit. Hist. Eng. Lit. iv. 85 One cannot but welcome this failure of critical Gleichschaltung.
1969 J. Mander Static Society viii. 254 There was no effective resistance..to Peron's gleichschaltung of the CGT.
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