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
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In the Wilhelmstrasse sidewalks outside Adolf Hitler's gadget-ridden Chancellery are a number of vast covered pits.
From Time Magazine Archive
Snatches of the Internationale seeped into the Wilhelmstrasse chancellery, where Socialist Friedrich Ebert, shaky head of a shaky government, sat wondering if he was another Kerensky doomed to fall before his country's Communists.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suddenly the Wilhelmstrasse had an extraordinary case of jitters.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was quite out of touch with the experienced German diplomats of the Wilhelmstrasse whose shrewd advice in foreign policy he so often takes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The marchers streamed through the massive stone Brandenburg Gate and turned down Wilhelmstrasse.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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