Wilhelmstraße

German

Etymology

From Wilhelm +‎ Straße (“street”), named after Frederick William I of Prussia in 1740.

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Proper noun

Wilhelmstraße f (proper noun, genitive Wilhelmstraße)

  1. Wilhelmstrasse (road in Berlin)
  2. (metonymically, historical) the Wilhelmstrasse, the German Foreign Office before 1945
    • 1983, Ulrich Heinemann, Der verdrängte Niederlage. Politische Öffentlichkeit und Kriegsschuldfrage in der Weimarer Republik, page 256:
      Für die Weimarer Demokratie war es jedoch ein Pyrrhussieg, den die Wilhelmstraße errang.
      Yet for Weimar democracy what the Wilhelmstrasse achieved was a Pyrrhic victory.

Descendants
  • → English: Wilhelmstrasse
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