Sonderweg
English
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[edit]From German Sonderweg (literally “special path”).
Proper noun
[edit]Sonderweg
- The supposed positively or negatively 'special' path German history took before 1945 (different from e.g. the democratic path of Western Europe and the autocracy of Eastern Europe), considered as a cause of the political structure that developed in Germany.
German
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Proper noun
[edit]Sonderweg m (proper noun, strong, genitive Sonderweges or Sonderwegs)
- the supposed special path by which German political structures developed (differently from those of France, Britain, Russia, etc), and which German history took (see the English entry)
Noun
[edit]Sonderweg m (strong, genitive Sonderweges or Sonderwegs, plural Sonderwege)
- special path; path different from the usual / normal one