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Gestapo

[guh-stah-poh, guh-shtah-poh] / gəˈstɑ poʊ, gəˈʃtɑ poʊ /
NOUN
SWAT team
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One acidly suggested calling it “Truman’s Gestapo Airlift.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Music transports them to regions where the Gestapo can do them no harm.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

Does anyone think it would have been a good idea to keep an allegedly “reformed” Gestapo in place as a postwar law enforcement agency?

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026

Fraenkel chose to continue representing clients in the Berlin courts from the beginning of 1933 up until 1938, when he had to flee because he was targeted by the Gestapo.

From Slate ● May 27, 2025

In 1941, when the Gestapo arrested Karl for a different offense, the dismissal letter from the Hitler Youth was used against him as proof that he was not a loyal German.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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