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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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When did local councils turn from being public servants who accepted it was their duty to remove rubbish and keep our streets clean into bullying, hectoring gauleiters continually thinking of ways to pry, snoop and order us around?
Berlinski goes on to say this: "What Hitler did not believe and what Stalin did not believe and what Mao did not believe and what the SS did not believe and what the Gestapo did not believe and what the NKVD did not believe and what the commissars, functionaries, swaggering executioners, Nazi doctors, Communist Party theoreticians, intellectuals, Brown Shirts, Black Shirts, gauleiters, and a thousand party hacks did not believe that God was watching what they were doing.
Some thought Gessler's tyranny was loosely based on Adolf Hitler's cruel and bumptious gauleiters.
 
 
 
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