The Wilhelmstrasse (German Wilhelmstraße, see ß) is a street in the center of Berlin, the capital of Germany. Between the mid 19th century and 1945 it was the administrative centre first of the Kingdom of Prussia and then of the unified German state, housing in particular the Reich Chancellery and the Foreign Office. For this reason the term "the Wilhelmstrasse" was used to signify the German governmental administration as a whole, much as the term "Whitehall" is often used to sig… (More on Wilhelmstrasse)