German Helmets WW1 - The Pickelhaube

“they also wore spikes and sometimes skulls on their helmets, so if you’re trying not to look like the bad guys, good job” -oversimplified

Finally klink’s picklehaube made an appearance!

There was a version i think the m1915 that had a stud on top instead of a spike, you could remove the spike.

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.

Poor lads at the start of the vid, fated to die in the coming slaughter,

No one messes up with Chile because of the Pickelhaube

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I hope German reuse pickelhaube for ceremony or parade. Their helmet today are not fit, because their helmet too modern for such tradition.

Actualy the first Prototype was made by Tsar Nicholas I but the design was stolen by the Germans.

Curses, YT's necessity for reuploads... won't lie, bit ironic that the Nazis weren't that interested with such an intimidating helmet, and yet the North and South Americans did.

The Gurkenhelm joke was great

I thought when I was in school, the German helmet was spikes because it was a weapon like a bayonet. German soldiers could be trained in head butt attack techniques for close quarters.

In Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines Gert Froebe pokes a hole in a hot air balloon with his pickelhaube helmet.

The British used a helmet called the "Home Service Helmet", which replaced the Shako helmet, in 1878. It is similar to the Pickelhaube, except it is made of dark blue cloth and had a bronze spike. It kinda looks like a bobby's helmet

The Military Manual will tell you when to Exchange the Spike for the Plume for the Eagle, Soldier, and TAKE THAT CIGARETTE OUT OF YOUR MOUTH when you are making your Report !

Mexico also used some but it was mostly popular with the officers of the federal army. It was also not that common to see

Thx 4 clearing it up as I read from several sources the Ruskis had it 1st. Your dates reinforce your claims.

You could do a sequel regarding the goose step march, which was definitely adopted by the Prussians from the Russians. 1 Russian Imperial Guards drill sergeant could do it with his foot as horizontal as his raised leg! (info from Haythornthwaite's World uniforms and battles 1815-1850, Blandford press, isbn 0-071370-776-3.Small book but brimming with great info.

Shout "Schultz!!!" If you notice him in the video!

That was a good “Aaallright, I’m..”.

You didn’t touch on the origin of the name! I believe it is named so because of the construction method of boiling the leather in water to form it

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Use also a scene from Gladiator movie when it was used to stab an enemy in the fight show

stays on during sex

I have one it was a souvenir from my girlfriend Mom's dad I looked it up it's stamped from the year it was made and it was from a king

Unironically goes hard

Great clips from The Hauptmann von Kopenick!

The pickelhaube is one of the best looking helmets ever

Alguien sabe cómo hacer un pickelhaube ruso

I think the Pickelhaube is one of the coolest helmets of all time

so curious, why did the fire variant shown in the end usually have a comb instead of a spike? also pretty sure they were used around the 1800s too, atleast the one i got is believed to be from that era but can't find any information about it

Fun Fact : The bottom of the Pickelhaube was used for the M1895 Prussian Marine/Police shako.

I am Italian and my family and a kot of these from an our family memeber that was in war ... But sadly idk why they threw em away also with their uniforms,like my mom said they were a lot.. They coukd go in a lot of museums..

Ayo what was poster women

It was briefly used by Mexican officials in the late Porfiriato (1890-1911)

Trivia: "Pickelhaube" literlly means "pick cap" or "pick bonnet".

Ah, Peru being the first to bring such fashions to South America, no wonder there.

only few people know that pickelhaube was invented by russians and than germans took concept and did theyr own pickelhaube

My first memory of that helmet is watching Benny Hill as he played a soldier during WW1. He saluted and ended up impaling his hand on the pointy end lol

I bet this video had a spike in views...😊