Sonderweg

English

Etymology

From German Sonderweg (literally “special path”).

Proper noun

Sonderweg

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.

German

Etymology

sonder- +‎ Weg

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Sonderweg m (proper noun, strong, genitive Sonderweges or Sonderwegs)

1. 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

Sonderweg m (strong, genitive Sonderweges or Sonderwegs, plural Sonderwege)

1. special path; path different from the usual / normal one