单词 | gauleiter |
释义 | gauleitern. A political official controlling a district under Nazi rule; also transferred and figurative, a local or petty tyrant. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > absolute ruler > [noun] > lesser or petty satrap?c1430 under-tyrant1648 arch-satrap1847 gauleiter1936 society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > Communist or Nazi political officials commissar1921 gauleiter1936 1936 A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza xxxi. 413 Tyranny under commissars, tyranny under Gauleiters—it doesn't seem to make much difference. 1943 Penguin New Writing 16 9 Mr. Scollop, with his draper's shop and his councillorship, is by way of being the gauleiter of this town. 1949 L. P. Hartley Boat 299 Two bullies, gauleiters almost, from whom everyone fled in terror. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Apr. 186/4 The Nazi gauleiters in occupied countries. 1970 New 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1936 |
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