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gauleiter|ˈgaʊlaɪtə(r)| Also with capital initial. [G., f. gau gau + leiter leader.] A political official controlling a district under Nazi rule; also transf. and fig., a local or petty tyrant.
1936A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza xxxi. 413 Tyranny under commissars, tyranny under Gauleiters—it doesn't seem to make much difference. 1943Penguin New Writing XVI. 9 Mr. Scollop, with his draper's shop and his councillorship, is by way of being the gauleiter of this town. 1949L. P. Hartley Boat 299 Two bullies, gauleiters almost, from whom everyone fled in terror. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Apr. 186/4 The Nazi gauleiters in occupied countries. 1970New Statesman 23 Oct. 526/1 His friend Karl Hanke, the Gauleiter of Lower Silesia, visited him in a state of shock after he had been to Auschwitz concentration camp. |