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Re: Das Boot Toast Question
Posted by: Alte Kamerad ()
Date: April 22, 2008 10:22PM

I think the toast is "To the Freikorps Doenitz" - i.e. "Doenitz's Free Corps" - a reference to the independence which submariners have always espoused.

As to the arm positions, that is the traditional German "down in one" toast routine.

Hope this helps.

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