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Originally Posted by Tom
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Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter
Keep it up, Herr Kaleun, and you MIGHT just make it with us pros to the rank of Kapitän zur See.  |
Nah, I don't want that. They don't let Kapitän zur Sees command submarines... I'd rather stay a Kapitänleutnant and keep sailing than be assigned to a silly deskjob at BdU. |
Werner Hartmann ,was a Kapitän zur See,promoted 1st April 1943 as CO of U-198.
Victor Schütze , Wolfgang Lüth, Karl-Friedrich Merten , Ernst Kals , Friedrich Poske and Jürgen Wattenberg (was promoted to this Rank when in POW Camp)where also Kapitän zur See but they had been promoted while doing Staff Duties or as Flottilla CO´s.