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Originally Posted by Mad Mardigan
Yeah, that I did see, with some of the info I was able to dig up pertaining to the different ranks of the kriegsmarine during WW2. I poked about, more extensively after posting what I did, right after trying to test the higher ranks of PO's, in the SH3Cmdr...
I did note, while poking about during that test I ran, in the Officers cat... the mention of the lowest rank for them of, OberFanrich zS, (2 lil' dots located, just riiiight above the 'a', in fanrich...I can't get my keystrokes to show up those euro typecasts of certain letters, sorry...  ) so am guessing that they would be a 'graduate of officer training' or the kriegsmarine equivalent to the U.S or other navies version thereof... more or less... again, just a guess...
M. M.
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A Fähnrich was still technically an “officer candidate”, vs an ensign in the USN which is already an officer. Fähnriche rode along on patrols learning everything they could (and pissing people off
) before taking that next step. Ullmann in Das Boot (the troubled guy with the French fiancé) was this.