GESTAPO
Dictionary entry overview: What does Gestapo mean? • GESTAPO (noun)
The noun GESTAPO has 1 sense:
1. the secret state police in Nazi Germany; known for its terrorist methods
Familiarity information: GESTAPO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GESTAPO (noun)
Meaning:
The secret state police in Nazi Germany; known for its terrorist methods
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Gestapo" is a kind of...):
secret police (a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition))
Domain category:
act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)
Holonyms ("Gestapo" is a part of...):
Schutzstaffel; SS (special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps)
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