"[T]here is the notion of sonderweg, literally the "special path," down which the German people are fated to wander. ... [W]hether viewed from within or without, left or right, the Germans could be seen through such a lens to possess some collective essence — a specialness — capable of explaining everything. In this way, one could speak of a trajectory “from Luther to Hitler” and interpret history not as some chaotic jumble but as a crisp, linear process."
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Thomas Chatterton Williams, "How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power" (6 October 2017), The New York Times, New York
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