Word: weichenstellung
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About a month ago a German friend used an unusual word to describe to me the pending German elections on March 6, 1983. He said the results would be a Weichenstellung, a "switching point" or "turning point" in German history. I think my friend was trying to convey his anxiety over the possible outcomes which, in a worst-case scenario, could lead his country into a go-it-alone neutralism and neo-nationalism with a deliberately diminished economy...
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