English Explanatory Dictionary

Sonderweg

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. 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.

Word forms

Sonderweg

Etymology

From German Sonderweg (literally “special path”).

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