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Gleichschaltung

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Gleichschaltung [ˈglaɪkˌʃæltʊŋ]
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
[German]


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The Gleichschaltung law disposes of the prerogatives of the separate States, and Nazi leaders have been named Statthalter, with power from Berlin to dismiss State governments should they not prove fully amenable.
He immediately initiated his policy of Gleichschaltung (equalization; synchronization; coordination) whose purpose was to place all of Germany's political, social, cultural, and religious institutions under the authority and control of the Nazi regime.
Old streets, new streets, rich streets, poor streets, streets of Pomerania and Bavaria and Westphalia are assimilated in the Gleichschaltung of death.
 
 
 
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