A high-speed highway or expressway in Germany and other European countries, famous for having no speed limits on some sections.
From German 'auto-' (automobile) + 'bahn' (road/track). Built starting in the 1930s, it became the world's first major highway system.
The Autobahn was originally built by Nazi Germany for military transport, but it accidentally became a symbol of German engineering excellence that outlasted its dark origins—the infrastructure survived, the ideology didn't.
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