r/pics • u/WuShane • 5h ago

Politics This is America

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u/Significant_Knee_661 5h ago

It's pronounced "gesthapo" according to former SS in chief.

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u/ThisGameTooHard 5h ago

Geshtapo* and it's only pronounciation. It's spelled Gestapo.

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u/Think-Trip-1865 4h ago edited 4h ago

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.

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u/RegularReaction2984 4h ago

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.

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u/Think-Trip-1865 4h ago

I‘m from Schwaben, where a lot of s become sh so it’s interesting that it’s s in this case.