Sonderweg

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 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.

Proper noun

 * 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

 * 1) special path; path different from the usual / normal one