The German Military Helmet from 1916-2022.

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  • @brandonszymanski4797
    @brandonszymanski4797 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Interesting enough, early FJ helmets had regular M35 liners and straps. Guys would jump and the helmet would tip forward (due to wind), and break their noses. Look at early war training photos and some from Crete. You’ll see guys with broken noses

    • @MikeB128
      @MikeB128  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep, didn't want to mention the M36 or 37 that much as there were only a couple hundred made/used. Most of the 37s were upgraded with the later liner as well.

  • @ManDuderGuy
    @ManDuderGuy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "He's losing his mind.....and I'm reaping all the benefits."

    • @billbrasky7540
      @billbrasky7540 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dude I love that scene so much lmao that smile and the way he slowly slides behind the curtain 🤣

  • @averagejoe8358
    @averagejoe8358 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Fun fact: The Stalhelm is still used today by Fire brigades in Germany

    • @MikeB128
      @MikeB128  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oh yeah? Then why are they made out of Fiberglass?

    • @wommyu
      @wommyu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MikeB128 your average joe comes up with a fun fact yet bring up no source....
      classic joe

    • @dimidas2580
      @dimidas2580 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MikeB128 redirects

    • @ytmain5994
      @ytmain5994 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MikeB128 Aluminium until about 2000, even with the WW2 type leather neck guard.. They used FJ type chinstraps. After 2000 most were plastic due to EU rules about fire helmets not conducting electricity. The aluminium ones post 2000ish had a non -conductive coating. These ones are easily recognised as they no longer had the spaghetti strainer vent holes used since the 40's.

    • @sunil_de6856
      @sunil_de6856 ปีที่แล้ว

      No it is not. The Shuberth F120 PRO and F130 do still have that general shape but they are obviously not made out of steel. However most Firebrigades and Emergency rescue services are currently moving to the F220 propably because it has a visor.
      Edit: Some may also be using the Casco PF1000R or Casco PF 112 or some from PAB

  • @JRassi_Militaria
    @JRassi_Militaria 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks Mike.

  • @silverglove2012
    @silverglove2012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    If you ever get more german uniforms or anything. I'll keep buying them.

    • @patricksmodels
      @patricksmodels 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The BGS always used versions derived from the M35 and not the M2 style, so that the border police would not be mistaken for Federal Army troops.

  • @jackusmc2542
    @jackusmc2542 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Mike, great video!

  • @trooperodst6880
    @trooperodst6880 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another great video Mike spot on.

  • @StevenRecknagelMusic
    @StevenRecknagelMusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video as always Mike

    • @MikeB128
      @MikeB128  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks 👍

  • @themandan4000
    @themandan4000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good video mike.

    • @MikeB128
      @MikeB128  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks 👍

  • @billbrasky7540
    @billbrasky7540 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    _the pimple helmet_
    What is it made of?
    Boiled leather.
    Does it offer any ballistic protection?
    Nein, but it looks cool! 🤭
    _everyone:_
    *JAWOHL!!!*

    • @kaiservon2936
      @kaiservon2936 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well they were originally designed to deflect saber blows if I’m not mistaken, unfortunately a saber blow was the last mode of death to worry about in a WW1 trench

    • @leno944
      @leno944 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      If I remember correctly it was made to deflect sabre attacks BUT probably kept because it's fucking cool

    • @brittakriep2938
      @brittakriep2938 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      A Pickel is in german language a pickaxe ( some say Spitzhacke/ pointed hew). There had been also steel and tombak ones for cuirassiers, few other heavy cavallry and Leibgendarmen ( a palace unit).

  • @ytmain5994
    @ytmain5994 ปีที่แล้ว

    The BGS and some police used the WW2 helmet until at least the late 70's. Early post war helmets were the same as WW2. The M35\50 versions came in 2 new variants. Split pins but no vent holes and vent holes but no split pins. The final variant was the M35/70 which had no vent holes or split pins.
    The M38 para helmet was made post war also for the Police GSG-9. Not sure when that ended but they can be seen in use in the 70's. The easy way to tell post war ones is by the chinstrap. When the straps splits into a Y, the wartime ones were sewn and the post war were riveted.
    The luftschutz air raid gladiator helmets were used until the 90's. Postwar models are fiberglass.
    The M42 aluminium civic fire helmet was made almost unchanged until about 2000 complete with leather neckguard. After that they were switched to plastic to comply with EU rules about electric conductivity it fire helmets (some specially treated aluminium ones continued to be made and these lack the "spaghetti" vents seen since 42). Around 2010, the helmet was completely redesigned. It still looks M42ish, but slightly off. The neckguard is gone and the liner is bicycle helmet style with the size dial at the back. This new model sits a bit higher on the head giving it a bit of a doesn't-quite-fit look.

  • @jonny2954
    @jonny2954 ปีที่แล้ว

    In may this year the German MoD announced the adoption of a new standard issue helmet, the Batlskin Viper. Initially only 5,000 have been ordered for Special Forces, then that order was upped to 205,000 pieces to supply the entirety of the German Armed Forces.

  • @Anon26535
    @Anon26535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonder if they could get away with making one with an integrated sensor/comms antenna that looks like a picklehaube.

  • @johnking6406
    @johnking6406 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hmm. Though it might have LOOKED more sensible than the U.S. M1 "steel pot" many USGIs complained about the loss of picking up on ambient sounds due to the lowered skirting of the PASGT helmet. This is why they started looking at the F6 design which raised the skirting somewhat.

  • @sirgurt1938
    @sirgurt1938 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I wished there was more info on the m1916 visorless helmets ):

    • @MikeB128
      @MikeB128  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      18s, but yes, I wish I knew more as well.

    • @sWarhistory
      @sWarhistory 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What about the m16 ventless helmet?

  • @Timodj13
    @Timodj13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Could you please do one with all of the variants from other countries that adopted and altered them? For example, the Swiss m1918 and the Russian M36.

    • @MikeB128
      @MikeB128  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Those were not "variants" of the stahlhelm, they were similar......

    • @Timodj13
      @Timodj13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MikeB128 just similar? The resemblance is uncanny, even the designers of those helmets even said that they used the Stahlhelm as their base model. If their helmets can’t be considered Stahlhelme, then the German M18 is also not a Stahlhelm, it’s just similar….. the helmet design has a tree with several branches, not just a trunk.

  • @jorgec.a3123
    @jorgec.a3123 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The 1962 M1 really remind me of a MARTE helmet, minus the rivets of course

    • @MikeB128
      @MikeB128  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The MARTE looks more like the "PASGT" style than an M1.

    • @jorgec.a3123
      @jorgec.a3123 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MikeB128 that M1 reminds me more of a MARTE than a MARTE of a PASGT because of the back side of it and how the rim angles from the visor down

  • @waswolltihr1526
    @waswolltihr1526 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just for info: Pickel can mean pimple in German but it can also mean Pickaxe or ice pick (see where the "pick" part of pickel comes from?). It's just the fancy reference to the spike on it. If I had to translate it into modern English I would probably call it the spike helmet.

    • @MikeB128
      @MikeB128  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Depending on which German person I talk to, they say one of those two. I think pimple is funny, but spike also makes sense.

    • @waswolltihr1526
      @waswolltihr1526 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MikeB128 I think the problem is that the pimple definition is much wider used nowadays than the somewhat dated "spike" definition. I myself have rarely heard the term being used in that regard either. Not many people have an "Eispickel" (Ice Pick) at home or do mountaineering where the term is used for climbing axes. Outside of these two occasions Pickel always means pimple and a lot of especially younger Germans are probably not even aware of the other meaning anymore.

    • @totallynotacommie4767
      @totallynotacommie4767 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Spikehat!

  • @kaiservon2936
    @kaiservon2936 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love German militaria!

  • @oldblindy5625
    @oldblindy5625 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you need a lead on ach nape pads let me know.

    • @MikeB128
      @MikeB128  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, no.

    • @oldblindy5625
      @oldblindy5625 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MikeB128 no problem. thought in an older video about the ach you mentioned the pads are hard to come by. in fayettville the ucp pads are cheap and plentiful in many surplus stores. as a collector I thought you or devin might've been in need to complete a helmet set up.
      love this video btw. thanks for the info

  • @user-ed3id3dr4u
    @user-ed3id3dr4u 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    you forgot about GDR's helmet

    • @MikeB128
      @MikeB128  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You obviously didn't bother to pay attention to the fucking intro.

    • @chrisi7127
      @chrisi7127 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MikeB128 lmao

  • @professionalrawdogger2083
    @professionalrawdogger2083 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    When are you going to ballistic test a French f1

  • @Dominic-sx1fo
    @Dominic-sx1fo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You forgot the M53 helmet🤦‍♂️

    • @MikeB128
      @MikeB128  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was BGS... Make your own video then.

  • @AllenLinnenJr
    @AllenLinnenJr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    *fewer holes...

  • @jadencaderao8776
    @jadencaderao8776 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just an FYI, Fallshirmjäger is pronounced "fall-sherm-yay-ger", twin L's in German don't make a y sound like they do in Spanish 👍

    • @MikeB128
      @MikeB128  2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah, okay, go tell all of the native German speakers who told me how to say that word that they are wrong then.

    • @mrd7067
      @mrd7067 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He said it pretty accurate.
      I`m saying this as a former german Fallschirmjäger, well kind of since the definition of this is somewhat disputed.
      We had new versions of the jumphelmets. I don`t know their formal name though.

    • @jorgec.a3123
      @jorgec.a3123 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He doesn't make a Spanish LL

    • @brittakriep2938
      @brittakriep2938 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fallschirmjäger is in german realy spoken Fallschirmjäger ! :-)))

    • @chrisi7127
      @chrisi7127 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MikeB128 I'm natively austrian (meaning my mother tongue is german) and Jaden is correct.

  • @monopalle5768
    @monopalle5768 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    DUDE, what are the odds... The german helmet is about to start a NEW chapter, 5000 being sent to ukraine, lol....

  • @OFPruzkumnik
    @OFPruzkumnik 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where are the helmets Die Nationale Volksarmee?
    Deutsche Demokratische Republik is also Germany...

    • @MikeB128
      @MikeB128  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You obviously didn't bother to pay attention to the fucking intro.

    • @OFPruzkumnik
      @OFPruzkumnik 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MikeB128 Sorry, I don't know much English, so I skipped the intro

  • @trooperodst6880
    @trooperodst6880 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fun fact German firefighters still use stahlhelms to this day.

  • @MIKEL843
    @MIKEL843 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    now THIS is a proper video on the history of German Helmets