Etymology

Sonderweg

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

German Sonderweg
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  1. German · derived fromSonderweg
  2. English todaySonderweg

From German Sonderweg (literally “special path”).

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