Gleichschaltung
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The forced standardization of political and social institutions under an authoritarian regime, originally with reference to Nazi Germany. countable, uncountable
"Far less identified with the party than the old Freikorps (anticommunist vigilante groups active just after World War I) mercenaries, the new element saw in the SS the true elite organization of the Nazi regime, and did not hesitate to attempt Gleichschaltungs within the Gleichschaltung, that is, to have the SS take over already Nazified organizations."
Example
More examples"Far less identified with the party than the old Freikorps (anticommunist vigilante groups active just after World War I) mercenaries, the new element saw in the SS the true elite organization of the Nazi regime, and did not hesitate to attempt Gleichschaltungs within the Gleichschaltung, that is, to have the SS take over already Nazified organizations."
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Gleichschaltung (“synchronisation”).