Wilhelmstraße
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German
Etymology
From Wilhelm + Straße (“street”), named after Frederick William I of Prussia in 1740.
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Wilhelmstraße f (proper noun, genitive Wilhelmstraße)
- Wilhelmstrasse (road in Berlin)
- (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