- published: 15 Feb 2015
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A reduit is a fortified structure such as a citadel or a keep into which the defending troops can retreat when the outer defences are breached. The term is also used to describe an area of a country, which either through a ring of heavy fortifications or through enhancing through fortification the defences offered by natural features such a mountains which will be defended even when the rest of the county is occupied by a hostile power.
In English the term National Redoubt is fairly commonly used. A redoubt is an outlying fortification, so its use to describe the Nazi's National Redoubt in the German and Austrian Alps is an accurate description. However another term that is sometimes used in English and more frequently used in French is national reduit (Réduit national) to describe the holding of the centre of a country while abandoning outlying territory.
Examples of this usage are:
Réduit National: Ein Film über die Schweiz im zweiten Weltkrieg
Geheimsache Gotthardfestung Doku
L'oeil réduit
Aventures Saison 2 #04 - Effectif réduit
Violente collision à Réduit : le chauffeur grièvement blessé
Donald Duck - Bon pour le modèle réduit (1951)
L'une des plus belles maquettes du monde ! Modèle réduit ? Pas vraiment !
Modèle Réduit - Bulldozer - Fiat-Allis 14B
Accident (marrant) à l'atterrissage d'un piper modèle réduit
modèle réduit
never lost someone i've trusted
people are lying every day
people lying or just leaving
safer distance away
on and on and on i've been re-routed
angry for so long i'm losing faith again
giving in to friends they make me crowded
angry when they always go away
so you won't have to tell me now i guess
not with everybody here
i feel safer when i'm lonelier than this
safer still and i pray
so you won't have to tell me now i guess
not with everybody here
i feel safer when i'm lonelier than this
safer still and i pray
people lying or just leaving
leaving, it's the only time to pray
leaving crying or just leaving you and me
safer distance away
on and on and on i've been re-routed
angry for so long i'm losing faith again
giving into friends they make me crowded
angry when they always go away again
so you won't have to tell me now i guess
not with everybody here
i been safer when i'm lonelier than this
safer still and i pray
cause anyone you've ever cared for
stay for hours while you lose
cause anyone you've barely known a while