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27+ German Pickelhaube Ww1 Background
01/08/2015 00:00
27+ German Pickelhaube Ww1 Background. Vintage armour store german pickelhaube imperial prussian helmet. They only really offered aesthetics as the helmets were made.
WW1 GERMANY PRUSSIAN UNIFORM SPIKED HELMET PICKELHAUBE ... from www.jbmilitaryantiques.com.au
In 1916, during the first world war, the germans dropped the idea of using the pickelhaube because it wasn't practical in the trenches. From the german pickel, point or pickaxe, and haube, bonnet, a general word for headgear), also pickelhelm. So, while the pickelhaube was an antique and ineffective design in world war 1, it was replaced about halfway through the war, and thus is likely in the early days of the first world war, the pickelhaube did give the germans a disadvantage.
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