Gestapo
pronunciation
How to pronounce Gestapo in British English:
UK [gəˈstɑ:pəʊ, -ˈʃtɑ:-]
How to pronounce Gestapo in American English:
US [ɡəˈstɑpo, -ˈʃtɑ-]
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- Noun:
- the secret state police in Nazi Germany; known for its terrorist methods
Word Origin
- Gestapo
- Nazi secret state police, 1934, from German Gestapo, contracted from "Geheime Staats-polizei," literally "secret state police," set up by Hermann Göring in Prussia in 1933, extended to all Germany in January 1934.
Example
- 1. Early in the morning , the 14-year-old edgar heard officers from the feared gestapo arrive at the family home .
- 2. Like papon , many of the killers had been nazi collaborators who learned their crowd control methods from the gestapo .
- 3. The kgb was still a threatening presence , housed , appropriately , in the building that had once been the gestapo headquarters .
- 4. She also learned that the gestapo had tortured her husband to death in 1943 for refusing to disclose her whereabouts .
- 5. Von kleist himself was arrested and questioned at length by the gestapo , and sent to a concentration camp , but then inexplicably let go and returned to combat duty .