Wilhelmstrasse

[ vil-helm-shtrah-suh ]

/ ˈvɪl hɛlmˌʃtrɑ sə /

noun

a street in Berlin, Germany: location of the German foreign office and other government buildings until 1945.

(formerly) the foreign office and policies of the German government.

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Example sentences from the Web for wilhelmstrasse

And all the ingenuity of the Wilhelmstrasse would not be able to find an answer to that.
Deutschland ber Allah|E. F. Benson
For in the Wilhelmstrasse this colony was ever the apple of their eye, and money was always ready for East African enterprises.
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign|Robert Valentine Dolbey
The Wilhelmstrasse paid well, but threatened exposures if this or that person were not removed.
The Minister of Evil|William Le Queux
Besides this the Wilhelmstrasse did not associate itself with the majority in the Reichstag.
In the World War|Count Ottokar Czernin

You can imagine the effect of this piece of news on the whole of the Wilhelmstrasse.
Albert Ballin|Bernhard Huldermann

British Dictionary definitions for wilhelmstrasse

Wilhelmstrasse

/ (German ˈvɪlhɛlmʃtraːsə) /

noun

a street in the centre of Berlin, where the German foreign office and other government buildings were situated until 1945

Germany's ministry of foreign affairs until 1945

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