How should you pronounce "Gestapo"?

A recent video of mine caused quite a stir. But I wasn't prepared to be picked up on my pronunciation of "Gestapo". Had I made an embarrassing mistake? So I checked. And as it turns out, I hadn't; but things are a lot more complicated than I imagined. Chapters: 00:00 Gesstapo, Geshtapo 01:19 The Interanational Phonetic Alphabet 02:10 Dictionaries and documentaries 02:54 Online arguments 03:22 What is the standard? 03:49 Phonotactics and syllabification 05:18 Three syllables 06:45 Still no clarity Music: "Hot Swing" by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com/ Creative Commons Attribution licence --------- Become a channel member for bonus content: https://www.youtube.com/@rewboss/join Send letters and postcards to: Rewboss Postfach 10 06 29 63704 Aschaffenburg Germany Please don't send parcels or packages, or anything that has to be signed for.