Orange Alternative ( Pomarańczowa Alternatywa ) is a name for an underground protest movement which was started in Wrocław, a town in south-west Poland and led by Waldemar Fydrych ( sometimes misspelled as Frydrych ), commonly known as Major ( Commander of Festung Breslau ) in the 1980s.

He is also the author of the novels Die Festung ( 1995 ) ( The Fortress ), based on travels home across France in 1944, and Der Abschied ( 2000 ) ( The Parting ), about the nuclear-powered cargo vessel NS Otto Hahn.

* The Fortress ( Festung ) is built on a rock the height of which amounts to 90 m. Sometimes erroneously called Schloss Garoldseck, the fortress was mentioned as Castrum Caofstein in a document for the first time in 1205.

It is one of 12 pillboxes built as part of the 1945 Festung.

The town is equipped with a nearly complete city-wall and Germany's biggest medieval fortress ( Festung Rosenberg ).

Marienberg Fortress ( German: Festung Marienberg ) is a prominent landmark on the Main river in Würzburg, Germany.

Ehrenbreitstein Fortress ( German: Festung Ehrenbreitstein ) is a fortress on the mountain of the same name on the east bank of the Rhine opposite the town of Koblenz in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

However, it is a common misbelief, that just the " Festung Ehrenbreitstein " was the largest fortress in Europe.

In 2011, Festung Ehrenbreitstein will be part of the National Garden Show in Koblenz and is thus currently under renovation.

Festung Budapest ( 2012 ) is a table-top war game simulation of parts of the siege using the Advanced Squad Leader ( ASL ) system.

Poznań fell to the Red Army ( assisted by Polish volunteers ) on 23 February 1945 following the Battle of Poznań, in which the German army conducted a last-ditch defence in line with Hitler's designation of the city as a Festung.

Delegation of German officers walking for negotiations before capitulation ( surrender ) | capitulation of Siege of Breslau | Festung Breslau, 6 May 1945

During the entire occupation, the German authorities built the so called Festung Norwegen.

During World War II there was a massive construction by the German Forces as part of creating Festung Norwegen, including large sections of Nordlandsbanen and the completion of Sørlandsbanen.

Its German population was violently expelled first by Hitler's Army that moved its own population further into Germany and declared Brieg " Festung Brieg " and later on by Soviets and Poles after they captured the city.

These coastal defence works ( kustverdedigingswerken in Dutch ) formed part of the so-called “ Fortress IJmuiden ,” ( Festung IJmuiden in German.

It came under Prussian ( later German ) rule for most of the period from 1793 to 1918, during which it expanded significantly, and was also heavily fortified ( as Festung Posen ).

Festung Warschau ( German for Fortress Warsaw ) was the name applied in German language to Warsaw when the city was defended, which happened under various constellations in the course of history, with and without involvement of German-speaking troops.

In the 20th century, the term Festung Warschau was used three times, all due to German participation.

Later in the war, three years after the Germans attacked the Soviet Union, Festung Warschau again entered German vocabularly, as between September 1944 and January 1945, the retreating Germans tried to establish a defense in the city.

* Festung Warschau-the German name for defended city of Warsaw during II w. w.

Delegation of German officers walking for negotiations before capitulation of Festung Breslau

Small Fortress ( Malá pevnost in Czech, Kleine Festung in German ) was part of the fortification on the left side of river Ohře.

* Ehrenbreitstein Fortress ( German: Festung Ehrenbreitstein )

In 1897, a Monument to Emperor Wilhelm I was erected right below the Festung, but on the west side of the Rhine, known as the Deutsches Eck ( German Corner ).

Fortress Europe ( German: Festung Europa ) was a military propaganda term from the Second World War which referred to the areas of Continental Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, as opposed to the free United Kingdom across the Channel.

During World War II, German soldiers built a defense station there to prevent the allies from entering Frøysjøen, as part of Festung Norwegen.

German dictator Adolf Hitler had declared that the town was to be a fortress ( Festung ).

Refusing to authorize a withdrawal, German dictator Adolf Hitler had declared Budapest a fortress city ( Festung Budapest ), which had to be defended to the last man.

It should be rather viewed as a buzz word, referring to the ring of fortification around Koblenz, of which the Festung Ehrenbreitstein was a part.

As the tide of the war turned against Germany, Terboven's personal aspiration was to organise a " Fortress Norway " ( Festung Norwegen ) for the Nazi regime's last stand.

* Festung Mark – Part of the former town fortification, now rebuilt for party's and conventions

There was no fighting for the town in 1945 during World War II even though the town was declared a fortress ( Festung ) in an attempt to block the Red Army's route to Berlin.

Following Hitler's decision that HDP guns be sited in northern France to bombard London, the task of finding a suitable site for the HDP batteries was given to Major Bock of Festung Pioneer-Stab 27, the fortification regiment of LVII Corps, Fifteenth Army, at the time based in the Dieppe area.

** Atlantic wall or Festung Europa — Hitler's personal term for the fortifications he had erected to stymie any Allied attempt at invasion of the continent.

During the Siege and Battle of Breslau in 1945, the entire residential district along the Kaiserstraße ( now Plac Grunwaldzki ) was razed to construct a military airfield intended for use in resupplying the fortress (" Festung Breslau ").

Gauleiter Karl Hanke declared the city a Festung ( fortress ) to be held at all costs.

Image: Festung Koenigstein. jpg | View from the river Elbe to the fortress

* Festung — fortress.

Adolf Hitler declared Hamburg as fortress, similar to the Festung Warschau, the cities of Posen, or Kolberg.

Crete was organized as a fortress (" Festung Kreta ") garrisoned by the Fortress Division " Kreta ", and after August garrisoned by the crack 22nd Air Landing Division.

Unlike other so-called fortress towns and cities, Festung Küstrin actually was a fortress.