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Etymology

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From Bendler +‎ Block, from its location on Bendlerstraße (now Stauffenbergstraße ), named after local politician Johann Christoph Bendler (1789–1873).

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Proper noun

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Bendlerblock m (proper noun, strong, genitive Bendlerblocks)

  1. A building complex in the Tiergarten district of Berlin, Germany.
  2. (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.
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