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
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
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
On the Wilhelmstrasse Ambassador Dodd likes to corner Adolf Hitler, lecture him in fluent German on the democratic ideas of his friend Woodrow Wilson.
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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