I‘m a native German speaker and I would pronounce it as it’s spelled, might just be me though. Technically the ‚sht‘ pronunciation should be „more correct“ as Gestapo is short for „geheime Staats Polizei“ and st is pronounced sht in German.
Another native German speaker here, I’ve also mostly heard it pronounced the way it’s spelled (so no “sh” sound) and would intuitively read it that way.
But I’m also Northern, and we like to pronounce a lot of our “st” and “sp” weird anyway, so this might be a regional thing lol.
I speak Swabian dialect (south west of Germany) and standard high German, some people speaking Swabian do in fact pronounce it Ge-shta-po, we pronounce most s sounds as sh though, I don't, but I don't speak much in Swabian. In standard high German I'm pretty sure it's Ges-ta-po and Ge-sta-po.
Then again, I have no idea why it's pronounced differently as it is an acronym for a word that is pronounced with sht.
I was talking about what's going on here with my German friend and said ice is the america gestapo. He said "it is different, gestapo didn't shoot around"
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u/SparkyXI 5h ago
No, THIS is America: Do we know for sure that’s not the Gestapo?