They made the Netherlandic soldiers look like space zombies from a lurid 1980's science fiction movie.
After the Germans disarmed the Netherlandic army, they later issured the distictive helments to a Croat unit that was fighting on the Axis side in the Balkans.
He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good... St. Matthew 5:45
I noticed this distinctive helmet. Never saw it before. Somewhere between a pot helmet and a Germanic sallet type. Very interesting for those interested in helmets.
My accountant says, "1 + 1, 40% of the time, equals divorce".
I don't know much about helmets except what I see incidentally in movies and books. That's the first time I have ever heard what must be the correct term "sallet" for the German helmet, which some writers have refered to as "coal scuttle helmet" after a now nearly extinct type of pail people used the carry coal in when they heated their houses with coal furnaces. My dictionary reveals a sallet to be a 15th century type, which is not surprising. The helmet used by the British and American armies in WWI are closely based on another common medieval type.
He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good... St. Matthew 5:45
Lol I agree
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