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Gestapo

[guh-stah-poh, guh-shtah-poh] / gəˈstɑ poʊ, gəˈʃtɑ poʊ /
NOUN
SWAT team
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“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

The Soviets handed her over to the Gestapo at the beginning of World War II, and she describes coming to the Nazi camp system and being issued clothes and utensils to eat with.

From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2026

Mabel Wulff from Newport lived in Nazi Germany - surviving years of Gestapo harassment and bravely fighting fires caused by falling bombs.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024

In fact, the Abwehr was in competition with the Gestapo.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple




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