What was the Sonderweg Thesis?

Queen Langosh

"Sonderweg" comes from a German phrase meaning "separate path."
Basically, the argument is that Germany's political development did not resemble the trajectory
of political and social development in any other European country. This is a long-running trope
in German historiography, something akin to the idea of "American exceptionalism" in
the United States, but naturally the events of the Second World War form a sort of turning point
in how we view it. Before , the idea of a Sonderweg emphasized the fact
that Germany had not developed the sort of autocratic government that emerged in...

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