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Sonderweg

Sonderweg 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.

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.

Origin of Sonderweg

From German Sonderweg (literally “special path”).

Questions about Sonderweg

What does Sonderweg mean?
Sonderweg 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.
What part of speech is Sonderweg?
Sonderweg is a proper noun.

Words near Sonderweg in the dictionary

  1. sonde
  2. sondeli
  3. sondelis
  4. sonder
  5. Sonderbund
  6. Sonderweg
  7. sondes
  8. sondesh
  9. Sondheim
  10. Sondheimian
  11. Sondheims

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