Against the Day
David Meury
dmeury at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 22 17:46:49 CDT 2006
David Casseres wrote:
"Wasn't "der Tag" part of a German political slogan?"
Though "der Tag" was used prior to WWI to refer to the
day when the war would finally begin, there was also a
specific usage in the German Navy to designate the day
when a major battle would supposedly establish German
superiority over the British Navy.
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