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Dansk: Tøjhusmuseet: Stålhjelm for tysk Luftschutz, 1940-45. Mørkeblå, med lufthuller, med hagerem af sort læder. Fortil overføringsmærke med "LUFTSCHUTZ" over et hagekors på to vinger (civil luftbeskyttelse).
English: Protection helmet for personnel of the Reichsluftschutzbund (Luftschutz, LS, Luftschutzdienst, Luftwarndienst), the civilian anti-aircraft/air defense organization in Nazi Germany before and during World War II
The 'gladiator' pattern helmets worn by the civilian Luftschutz (Air Defence) organization first appeared in 1938. There were four main patterns and each differed as a result of cost-saving modifications to ease wartime production.
The first was made in three components, consisting of a skull and two separate peaks welded together. This helmet also featured the winged Luftschutz emblem in the form of a decal fitted to the front and further distinguished by beading embossed around the circumference of the skull. Liners and chinstraps were made of leather.
The second pattern, introduced in 1939, was of two-piece construction and identical to the above apart from the fact that both peaks were now made of one component.
A third pattern, also used from 1939 was of identical design but differed in that it was made of an economical one-piece stamping. Production of these helmets ceased when in 1940 substandard factory rejects of the military issue helmet were used, reclassified as the M1935/40 and being deemed as acceptable for home front personnel. Of identical shape to the standard all-arms helmet it featured the addition of having the horizontal bead embossed around the circumference of the helmet (see UNI 7979). The Luftschutz emblem was applied to the front and the liner system often varied from the military specification leather M1931 to cloth and also vinyl.
The final official Luftschutz helmet was the M1944, a single-stamped piece that deleted the use of the beading but still retained the shape of the earlier 'gladiator' style helmets. The use of the Luftschutz emblem was also deleted and the lining system was generally made of white cloth with either clear plastic or black plastic chinstraps.
Although those outlined above were the standard issue, the authorities re-issued captured foreign helmets and other obsolete patterns, it being cheaper to repaint a helmet than to make a new one. These helmets frequently carried the Luftschutz emblem.
Date – 1945
Source https://samlinger.natmus.dk/thm/object/23415
Author Photo of military headgear in the collections of the Danish War Museum (Danish: Tøjhusmuseet); National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen (Nationalmuseet, Danmark); CC-BY-SA
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