Festungshaft
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German
Etymology
From Festung (“fortress”) + -s- + Haft (“arrest, custody, imprisonment”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Festungshaft f (genitive Festungshaft, no plural)
- (law) custodial sentence of detention in some place, especially in a fortress
- Synonyms: Ehrenhaft, Festungsarrest
- 1943, Adolf Hitler, “Vorwort”, in Mein Kampf [My Struggle], 855th edition, Munich: Franz Eher Nachfolger, →OCLC; New English translation from Thomas Dalton, “Foreword”, in Mein Kampf, New York, N.Y.: Clemens & Blair, 2018, →OCLC, page 19:
- Am 1. April 1924 hatte ich, aufgrund des Urteilsspruches des Münchner Volksgerichts von diesem Tage, meine Festungshaft zu Landsberg am Lech anzutreten.
- On April 1st, 1924. I began to serve my sentence of detention in the Fortress of Landsberg am Lech, following the verdict pronounced by the Munich people's court on that day.
Declension
Declension of Festungshaft
Hypernyms
Further reading
- “Festungshaft” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Festungshaft” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Festungshaft” in Duden online