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Sonderweg
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English
Etymology
From en de Sonderweg special path.
Proper noun
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
Etymology
de :af sonder- Weg
de sonder- Weg
Pronunciation
de De-Sonderweg.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
m,(e)s
the supposed special path by which German political structures developed (differently from those of France, Britain, Russia, etc), and which German history took (see en Sonderweg the English entry)
Noun
m,(e)s
special path; path different from the usual / normal one