Festungshaft

German

Etymology

From Festung (“fortress”) +‎ -s- +‎ Haft (“arrest, custody, imprisonment”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛstʊŋsˌhaft/

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• Hyphenation: Fes‧tungs‧haft

Noun

Festungshaft f (genitive Festungshaft, no plural)

1. (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 [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Festungshaft
genitive	einer	der	Festungshaft
dative	einer	der	Festungshaft
accusative	eine	die	Festungshaft

Hypernyms

• Haft

Further reading

• “Festungshaft” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Festungshaft” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Festungshaft” in Duden online