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Gauleiter

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Gauleiter [ˈgaʊˌlaɪtə]
n
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a provincial governor in Germany under Hitler
2. (sometimes not capital) Informal a person in a position of petty or local authority who behaves in an overbearing authoritarian manner
[from German, from Gau district + Leiter leader]


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Sapieha read the letters and immediately burned them, explaining: "If I give publicity to these things, and if they are found in my house, the head of every Pole wouldn't be enough for the reprisals [Nazi governor] Gauleiter Frank will order.
The man who had been rejected by the girl happened to be a personal friend of the Gauleiter, the highest Nazi authority, in Tirol.
Gauleiter Arthur Greiser, the Nazi administrator of the Wartheland, killed thousands of Catholics in northwestern Poland.
 
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