Bendlerblock
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Bendler + Block, from its location on Bendlerstraße (now Stauffenbergstraße ), named after local politician Johann Christoph Bendler (1789–1873).
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Bendlerblock m (proper noun, strong, genitive Bendlerblocks)
- A building complex in the Tiergarten district of Berlin, Germany.
- (informal, metonymically, German politics) the Federal Ministry of Defence
- 2023 January 16, Sebastian Huld, “Lambrecht wählt das Ende mit Schrecken”, in NTV[1]:
- Selbstkritische Töne waren unmittelbar nicht zu vernehmen aus dem Bendlerblock, den Lambrecht in denkbar bewegten Zeiten verlassen wird.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Bendlerblock [sg-only, masculine, strong]
Further reading
[edit]- Bendlerblock on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de