encompasses buildings variously described in German as Burg (castle), Festung (fort/fortress), Schloss (manor house, palace or hunting lodge) and Palais/Palast...

authorize a withdrawal, Adolf Hitler had declared Budapest a fortress city (Festung Budapest), which was to be defended to the last man. Waffen SS General...

protocol drawn up at Paris on 3 November 1815, declared Mainz, Luxemburg, and Landau to be fortresses belonging to the Confederation of Germany, and stipulated...

grounds of the Mainz Citadel, and held 700 POWs. Rosenberg. Located in Festung Rosenberg above the town of Kronach. Charles de Gaulle was held as a POW...

beginning in February 1945. Herzog remained in the city, which was declared a Festung (fortress city), was given command of its Volkssturm, or Nazi Party militia...

whereas the older one, Louis Thomas (1657–1702) had died at the Siege of Landau (1702). The author of the song is unknown. The melody derives from "Als...

Berlin, 1975, ISBN 3-8031-2003-9. Gunther Hildebrandt: Rastatt 1849. Eine Festung der Revolution. (Illustrated historical issue No. 6, ed. by the Zentralinstitut...

it was surrounded by the Red Army and was declared a "fortress city" (Festung) by Adolf Hitler. Lange, who could not have any doubts about his fate if...

It was initially the Main Reserve, Fortress Strasbourg (Hauptreserve/Festung Straßburg) and was designated the 30th Reserve Division (30. Reserve-Division)...

the Theater am Deinhardplatz, rehearsal stages 2 and 4 as well as the Festung Ehrenbreitstein for the summer performances. In addition, the theatre participated...

so as not to obstruct the firing range of the fortress of Germersheim (Festung Germersheim). In this way a continuous east–west connection was established...