German Helmets WW1 - The Pickelhaube
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- Опубликовано: 18 авг 2023
- An overview of the Pickelhaube featuring some places it shows up in the movies.
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Movies/Games Featured:
Should Arms 1918
Daffy the Commando 1943
Waterloo 1970
1864 (2018)
The King’s Men 2021
Die Deutschmeister 1955
Von Richthofen and Brown 1971
Der Untertan 1951
Hot Fuzz 2007
All Quiet on the Western Front 1979
Ace of Aces 1982
Hitler: The Rise of Evil 2003
All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
Joyeux Noel 2005
Paths of Glory 1957
Passchendaele 2008
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
The Captain from Kopenick 1958
Hogan's Heroes (Series)
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Another cool fact is the Officers and those privately purchased had slightly taller and pointier spikes than issued pickelhaube.
One of my favourite depictions of this helmet is from the Simpsons, where a group of men graduate as German WW1 reenactors. Of course, being Americans at a graduation they throw their spiked helmets into the air…
Makes you wonder how many times the spike ever hit a doorframe or poked a hole in a low ceiling.
Right before WW1, the Impeiral Army adapted the M1915 which got rid of the bright brass and silver. They went to the steel fittings which is why you see so many with dark colors. The M1895/97 were the last with shiny brass.
No one messes up with Chile because of the Pickelhaube
There are lots of minor variations in a picklehaube to tell what kind of role you served in the Imperial Army. One's chiscales, wappen, crown, and base of your crown.
Fun Fact : The bottom of the Pickelhaube was used for the M1895 Prussian Marine/Police shako.
The concept of head injury reports increasing simply because the soldiers were alive and well to report them is interesting. Just because there's a lot of something doesn't necessarily mean that something is bad. It could be the opposite as it was in this case. Very interesting.
Also something to note, its that the pickelhaube the Swedish royal guard uses shown in the video, are the ones of the dragoons. The infantry section of the royal guards uses a black pickelhaubes that is the same as the German one.
That was a good “Aaallright, I’m..”.
It is interesting that the "symbol of Prussian militarism" was created in the Russian Empire - in 1837, the prototype of the helmet, designed by Tsar Nicholas I together with the court painter, Major General of His Imperial Majesty's Retinue Lev Ivanovich Kiel, was presented to Prince Charles, who arrived on a friendly visit. The prince liked the helmet very much and, upon returning to Berlin, demonstrated it to his father, King Frederick William III and offered to equip the army with it. Frederick did not like the helmet, because it was "expensive and not practical", but as soon as he died and Frederick William IV ascended the throne, he approved the adoption of this helmet with certain changes to the original design in 1842. In Russia, the refinement continued for another two years, until 1844.
The Pickelhaube is a German symbol akin to the Luger. So much so that the symbol for "German" in sign language is to raise your finger like the spike on a Pickelhaube. The Russians, who loved the Prussian system and even copied its rank system (Gefreiter -> Yefreitor), used Pickelhauben up to the early battles in the Crimean War; and the Museum of the French Foreign Legion in Aubagne has a captured Russian Pickelhaube in its collection.
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The pickelhaube is one of the best looking helmets ever
i never knew about WW1 until i married my husband, Himself being a veteran and avid history collector as a hobby he introduced me to the war. I see it as an interest and sad part of history
As I stated in the previous video that got taken down. The metal version of the helmet was worn by heavy cavalry units of the prussian and the saxon army after the creation of the german empire in 1871. Guards Cuirassiers and Cuirassiers had the metal helmet as welll as the 1st Royal Saxon Guards Heavy Cavalry and the Carabiniers (2nd Royal Saxon Heavy Cavalry). The heavy cavalry regiments of the Bavarian Army had the leather version. Brunswick and Bavaria where the last german states that adopted the Pickelhaube they did so in 1886 after Ludwig II death. Before that all Bavarian Units had leather helmet that was somewhat a mix between the pickelhaube and the dragoon style helmet. It was made from leather but instead of a spike it had a woolen comb in German it was called Raupenhelm (caterpillar helmet).
I think the Pickelhaube is one of the coolest helmets of all time
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Small correction: the steel Pickelhaube was actually the original desgin. But it was thought to be too heavy for the infantry.
This wasn't mentioned, but I always wondered why the British helmet was relatively narrow in height, but with a wide brim, compared to most of the others being more a symmetrical "bowl" shape....this was because most head injuries happened from artillery, which often exploded above the ground (10'-30' ), sending shrapnel downward. The British helmet provided a bit more coverage than the others.