Gestapo
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- noun
- /ɡəˈstɑːpoʊ/
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- Eichmann had headed the Gestapo's Section for Jewish Affairs and was responsible for the implementation of the Final Solution.
- Gestapo officer
- Gestapo troops
- former Gestapo
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- My father's sister was grabbed by the Gestapo and was killed in Auschwitz.
- Right Then they get they get found out by the Gestapo, right crowned, just manages to escape.
- Like he wants his generals to be like the Gestapo, to be like Hitler's generals.
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- But he told me that he thinks that you are Jewish and that he's going to report you to the Gestapo, to the authorities.
- Justice Knowles, rounded off by saying we have never had a Stasi, A Checker or a Gestapo.
- This reminds me of Gestapo, you know what I mean?
- I mean, I've never had, you know, our way back at Gestapo times, You know, what is happening.
Examples
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When Primo Levi is told by a Gestapo soldier at Auschwitz, "There is no why here!"
Fiction book (1999) -
- Or do you want me arrested by the Gestapo?
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The last thing we need is for the Gestapo to find you here,' his mother told him.
Academic text (2010) -
But she had not expected the Gestapo to come to New Church.
Fiction book (1991) -
The Colonel is from the Gestapo and an educator too.
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My father's sister was grabbed by the Gestapo and was killed in Auschwitz.
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On several occasions, the Gestapo forced their way into Wolfram's family home in order to search for banned books.
Academic text (2011) -
Everywhere, from Austria to the Sudetenland, the Gestapo has rounded up thousands of Jews.
Fiction book (1991) -
But their laughter froze when they heard the Gestapo pounding on Sendler's door.
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He ran away at 18 to fight the Nazis after the Gestapo tortured his brother to death.
Synonyms
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A group that works for the government in secret to watch and punish people who oppose it
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gestapo is short for the German name Geheime Staatspolizei, where Geheime means 'secret', Staat means 'state', and Polizei means 'police'. So Gestapo refers to the secret state police that used fear and violence to stop people who opposed the government.