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Gau
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Gau is an old German word for a district, chiefly used as a suffix, e.g: Rheingau, Breisgau.
In National Socialist Germany that Party's organisation was based on a division of the whole country into a number of roughly equal districts which they described as Gaue; as time went on more and more activities were put on a Party, and therefore on a Gau, basis. Possessing greater uniformity than the states and Prussia Provinces, the new division had certain advantages.[1]
Footnotes
- β Balfour, Michael, Four-Power Control in Germany and Austria 1945-1946, Oxford University Press, U.K., 1956, p.184n.