gestapo
盖世太保,秘密警察
Definitions
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- : the German state secret police during the Nazi regime, organized in 1933 and notorious for its brutal methods and operations.
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- : of or resembling the Nazi Gestapo, especially in the brutal suppression of opposition: The new regime is using gestapo tactics.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The French police supplied the trucks; the Gestapo, the men.
On April 25, 1941, the Gestapo moved into the building and I had to give all the keys to the Germans.
The director of the Gestapo answered only to Heinrich Himmler, and Himmler, only to the Fuhrer himself.
Still, at its largest in 1944, the Gestapo had only 31,000 agents to fulfill its grim brief across all of occupied Europe.
All over Europe, the Gestapo orchestrated mass killings on a daily basis.
This new role of dodging the Gestapo appealed enormously to his comic strip sense of melodrama.
He never knows when the hand of the German Gestapo may drop on his shoulder.
But there are lots and lots of other Gestapo rats still alive and kicking.
Three Gestapo rats are dead and gone out of the picture for us.
You see, we hope that you two will be able to draw the Gestapo away from Jones.