Wilhelmstrasse
Americannoun
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a street in Berlin, Germany: location of the German foreign office and other government buildings until 1945.
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(formerly) the foreign office and policies of the German government.
noun
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a street in the centre of Berlin, where the German foreign office and other government buildings were situated until 1945
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Germany's ministry of foreign affairs until 1945
Example Sentences
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On the west side of the Wilhelmstrasse only one building was undamaged : Hitler's new Reich Chancellery.
From Time Magazine Archive
U.S. officials who went to the Potsdam conference remember the evening when Secretary of State Byrnes showed up an hour late for dinner in the American quarters at No. 3 Wilhelmstrasse.
From Time Magazine Archive
I know what you are thinking, Chancellor Adolf Hitler said, advancing, with a fresh smile on his face, across his huge office in the Wilhelmstrasse.
From Time Magazine Archive
In only one, a bookshop on Kaiser Wilhelmstrasse, they answered in glutinous English.
From Time Magazine Archive
By seven o’clock, Melita and her parents stood on the crowded Wilhelmstrasse, the wide street that led past the President’s Palace and the Chancellery, the building that housed important government offices.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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