Wilhelmplatz
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Wilhelmplatz was a square in the Mitte district of Berlin, at the corner of Wilhelmstrasse and Voßstraße. The square also gave its name to a Berlin U-Bahn station which has since been renamed Mohrenst
Wilhelmplatz in the early 1900s with the Ordenspalais on the right, Reich Chancellery on the centre, and Palais Pless to the left
The U-Bahn station on Wilhelmplatz, early 1900s
Wilhelmplatz, Pen and ink by C.H. Horst, around 1733
Front of the Ordenspalais; the left annex of the Palais Schulenburg (old Imperial Chancellory) in the background; engraving by Johann Georg Rosenberg, around 1785
Reich Chancellery
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The Reich Chancellery was the traditional name of the office of the chancellor of Germany in the period of the German Reich from 1878 to 1945. The Chancellery's seat, selected and prepared since 1875,
Wilhelmplatz
…a Berlin U-Bahn station which has since been renamed Mohrenstraße. A number of notable buildings were constructed around the square, including the old Reich Chancellery (former Palais Schulenburg), the building of the Ministry of Finance and the Kaiserhof grand hotel built in 1875. The square was originally laid out…
Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1998 013 20A, Berlin, Reichskanzlei
Bundesarchiv Bild 183 R89708, Berlin, Neue Reichskanzlei
The New Reich Chancellery under construction in 1938
The New Reich Chancellery, pictured here on the junction of Hermann-Göring-Straße (now Ebertstraße) and Voßstraße in 1939