Traditor

The term traditor (derived from Latin for traitor ) (sometimes also traditor battery if it was more than one gun in the same position) is an artillery system in a fortress that is hidden and not immediately recognizable by the attacker. The traditor (also known as space pranks) is primarily designed to artillery cover blind spots that cannot be reached by the main artillery due to the type of fortification or the nature of the terrain. In contrast to capons or trench strokes , which were designed for close combat , the Traditors were equipped with medium-caliber cannons (mostly 7.5 cm to 9 cm) that were effective at short to medium distances.

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  Battery of traditors of the fortress Modlin

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  Verle fortress with Traditor on the right (southern) flank

literature

• Encyclopedia First World War . Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2003.
• EA Grestenberger: Kuk fortifications in Tyrol and Carinthia 1860–1918 . Publishing house Austria, Vienna 2000.
• Hartwig Neumann: Fortress architecture and fortress construction technology . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1988.