Posted: 3/2/2003 7:04:14 PM EDT
| I have become obsessed with collecting military helmets in the last month and now I was hoping to get some great info from the smartest dudes in the world. Where is the best place to buy Nazi helmets on the web? Also, other collectors, please post pics of your helmets. |
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[b]German Nazi Helmets[/b] Oh yeah- just the kind of topic for AR15.COM....[rolleyes] Next topic: Where can I get original cans of Zyklon B? 95th(sarcasm alert!)Foot ....................... Jake: "Who's that up ahead?" Elwood: "Nazis. Holding some kinda protest march." Jake: "Nazis? I hate Illinois Nazis." (Floors gas pedal, drives car into crowd of Nazis) "THE BLUES BROTHERS", 1980 [:D] |
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EagleArmsHBAR, I love collecting items from that time period as well. I don't have any helmets but I do have a luger, broom handle mauser, frommer stop, hitler youth knife, k98 with papers that was a vet bring back. check out this website: [url]http://www.thirdreichforum.com/phpBB2/[/url] great place for collectors with a for sale board. 95thFoot, [:K] whats wrong with being interested and preserving history?? Maybe you would be happier back at DU with your mindset? Are you against militaria collecting? For the children? |
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Quoted: EagleArmsHBAR, I love collecting items from that time period as well. I don't have any helmets but I do have a luger, broom handle mauser, frommer stop, hitler youth knife, k98 with papers that was a vet bring back. check out this website: [url]http://www.thirdreichforum.com/phpBB2/[/url] great place for collectors with a for sale board. 95thFoot, [:K] whats wrong with being interested and preserving history?? Maybe you would be happier back at DU with your mindset? Are you against militaria collecting? For the children? You haven't been here very much, have you? If you had been, you'd know my positions. Until YOU have relatives go up the chimneys, as some of my family did, don't tell me how to feel. And no, I'm not Jewish. |
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Quoted: 95thFoot, [:K] whats wrong with being interested and preserving history?? Maybe you would be happier back at DU with your mindset? Are you against militaria collecting? For the children? This is Funny, 95th is against preserving history!!! It may surprise you but 95th and I spend alot of our time preserving history, he dressed as a OMFG, A Redcoat, and I am even worse, a LOYALIST Ranger working with Savage Indians, we are both part of that vile species of vermin that tried to keep the Assissin Washington and is Non Debt Paying buddies from starting their own country. And I also agree that questions about Natzie equipment is not something that I would want the 1st time browser to see here at ARFCOM. Might make them think that we are simpathetic to the nazi cause. It aint about the truth, its about perceptions! |
| In 1990, I bought an excellent condition Camoed' M-42 single decal German Army helmet at a yard sale for $15.00. I sold it at The Ohio Gun Collectors show for $250.00. I have no interest in WWII German gear but I knew it was worth something to the right person. I used the money to buy an AR. Sadly, as our WWII vets pass away more of this kind of stuff is finding it's way out of the attics. |
| I have a WWII Nazi helmet. It has an eagle w/ the Swastika in it's claws on one side, and on the other side ia a three color red, white, and black, emblem. I've had that thing since I was about ten or eleven years old. My old Scout Master gave it to me because he knew I liked "army stuff". Still has the leather liner in it. |
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My collectors opinion: Try eBay, that's where I sold alot of my German militaria, including helmets. My political opinion: Collecting and preserving militaria from other countries does not mean that you agree with that said countries policies or past actions. Here are a few pics of items that were once in my collection. All purchased while living overseas in Germany. Wife said the house started looking like a museum and that I should charge admission to the livingroom! LOL!!! I eventually sold everything to purchase bigger and better toys! M35 Steel Helmet [img]http://www.gunsnet.net/album/data/500/6201M352.jpg[/img] German "Luftschutz" Air-raid helmet [img]http://www.gunsnet.net/album/data/500/6201luft.jpg[/img] Gasmask [img]http://www.gunsnet.net/album/data/500/6201gasmask.jpg[/img] |
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Quoted: Which country fascinates you does say a lot. Especially which language you choose to use in your signature line. Whatever. Who ever said I was fasinated with Germany? I happen to be half German, lived there for over 12 years, married a German, both kids born there and speak the language!! LOL!!! I had Russian militaria items also, does that make me a commie? My sig line comes from a German fasching (carnival) song, translated: "Everything has an end but a sausage has two." |
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Quoted: Quoted: Which country fascinates you does say a lot. Especially which language you choose to use in your signature line. Whatever. Who ever said I was fasinated with Germany? I happen to be half German, lived there for over 12 years, married a German, both kids born there and speak the language!! LOL!!! I had Russian militaria items also, does that make me a commie? My sig line comes from a German fasching (carnival) song, translated: "Everything has an end but a sausage has two." And your sig line says something about you and your ties to Germany. Not a dig, just the way it is. Didn't say that was bad. |
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Quoted: Quoted: 95thFoot, [:K] whats wrong with being interested and preserving history?? Maybe you would be happier back at DU with your mindset? Are you against militaria collecting? For the children? This is Funny, 95th is against preserving history!!! It may surprise you but 95th and I spend alot of our time preserving history, he dressed as a OMFG, A Redcoat, and I am even worse, a LOYALIST Ranger working with Savage Indians, we are both part of that vile species of vermin that tried to keep the Assissin Washington and is Non Debt Paying buddies from starting their own country. Big dif between the Crown Forces of 225+ years ago and Nazi Germany: the British did not attempt to exterminate whole disarmed peoples on the basis of their ethnicity or political beliefs. Unlike what is pictured in "The Patriot" (gag, hack) the British did not lock up crowds of people in churches and set them ablaze. True, the Loyalists and Rebels went at each other with cruel hammers and tongs, esp. in the South, but the British were horrified and tried to stop their American allies from committing more. For my self, we did not know in our family until a few years ago when we took a trip to visit hitherto unknown relatives of my wife (Scottish born of German emigre parents) in the former East Germany, soon after reunification. (A story in itself.) It transpired that my late father-in-law, despite his protestations before he died, had been quite a Nazi in his younger days in Berlin, and then Dresden, before he quit working for Heinkel, joined up, and was taken prisoner by the Americans in Tunisia (he had been in the Luftwaffe as part of the Afrika Korps). He had cousins and other relatives who we had been told had died in the air raid in 1945, but these relatives whom we visited told us that these missing relatives, some of them toddlers, had been rounded up in a "Nacht und Nebel" operation in 1944, and taken away, supposedly to a concentration camp somewhere in Silesia. They were never seen again. When I asked why they were taken, the answer was, "The local block captain didn't like them." "Why not?" "Nobody knows, and we didn't dare ask." "Were they Jews, Communists, or resistance?" "No, not as far as we knew." To this day we don't know where they went, or why they were taken. We don't even know where to begin... My wife's mother's side was luckier. They were from the Heidelberg area, and were bombed, then liberated by the Americans. "Oh, it was so terrible that they bombed our town (Eberbach)." "Hey, could have been worse-", I said. "The Soviets could have taken it over...." I had been always fascinated by the German armed forces of the WW2 era until then. However, after that, when I realized that they touched me personally, and after having grown up in West Germany as well as on numerous air and army bases in my youth, I realized that these people were not to be glorified, even accidentally. Sure, you are free. Feel free to go ahead and collect Nazi helmets, if you feel no bond to them politically and philosophically (or, collect them if you do). If you feel that there is no symbolism attached to them, be my guest. But if there is no symbolism attached to them, then there shouldn't be any symbolism attached to old cans of Zyklon B either. After all, they are only inanimate objects. Prove me wrong- change my mind! I admit- maybe I'm the one with the problem (flame away, kids). I have a whole library of stuff about this era in storage that I'd love to look at again, but I just can't bring myself to look at it any more, as a result of my experiences. I'm horrified, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Maybe I've seen just one too many pics of people I know in family photo albums in Germany when I was younger, pictures of them in their youth, wearing black or brown uniforms.....I can only wonder what they did while in those uniforms.... I used to laugh at WW2 vets when I was a kid who used to spit on German and Japanese cars. I wouldn't do what they did, but I understand their motives a bit more now. And I also agree that questions about Natzie equipment is not something that I would want the 1st time browser to see here at ARFCOM. Might make them think that we are simpathetic to the nazi cause. It aint about the truth, its about perceptions! Well, to take the other tack, we have got quite PC here at ARFCOM in the past two years for that very reason. No more BOTD, no more types like McUzi and Ragnar-Redbeard (well, that might be a good thing?), but I should think that if we are trying to spare newbies' sensibilities re scantily-clad (if clad at all) women, then I should think that visions of swastika sugarplums dancing in people's heads wouldn't be too appetizing either. Perhaps Assweb is a better mine of info and sellers/buyers of Nazi memorabilia? Or do we just err on the side of freedom and let anybody say and do what they want here, let the chips fall where they may, irrespective of anybody's sensibilities, incl. mine, and Generic's? .......................... I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle, and then have your name misspelled in the newspapers. - --William Tecumseh Sherman "Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past" - slogan of The Party, "1984", George Orwell |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Which country fascinates you does say a lot. Especially which language you choose to use in your signature line. Whatever. Who ever said I was fasinated with Germany? I happen to be half German, lived there for over 12 years, married a German, both kids born there and speak the language!! LOL!!! I had Russian militaria items also, does that make me a commie? My sig line comes from a German fasching (carnival) song, translated: "Everything has an end but a sausage has two." And your sig line says something about you and your ties to Germany. Not a dig, just the way it is. Didn't say that was bad. Ok, thanks. I'm cool. I just don't care for people that bash Germans during WWII. The Nazi's oppressed their own people as much as others. My Grandmother was forced to cook for the soldiers AND their dogs or face the consequences. Father-in-law was forced to join the SS or face the consequences. Mother-in-law same situation as my Grandmother. I'm also half French (What a combo to be during these times! LOL!!!!) my French Grandfather was captured and sent to a POW camp. He escaped, just missed being captured. I was told if they captured him he would have been shot. My German Grandmother nevers talks about my Grandfather. Just that he was killed in action. She never even spoke to my father about his father! Oma's now in a home here, a victim of Alzheimers, before her condition was too bad she sat my mother down and explained the whole situation about my Grandfather. My mother had to swear she would not tell my father the story untill after my Grandmother passes away. Guess some day we'll all know the rest of the story............ |
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95th, I was not trying to put words in your mouth, was just struck with the Irony of a reenactor being accused of not wanting to preserve history. Im sure you have come across the tourist/visitor to an event who feel that someone who would put on a Redcoat or portray a Loyalist are somehow traitors to modern day USA. If my Irony/sarcasam didnt come across the net, Im sorry. I love my country, and have sacrificed alot in its service, but I also feel the need to educate the public about exactly what lead to the founding of what became the great nation that we have today. It wasnt the rosy pic that the books portray. As to the subject heading of this post. I just think that it could have been done better. Example: Post Subject: ANY WWII Helmet Collectors? Text: Im gotten the bug to collect WWII helmets, anyone else here have the same? Then people could respond that they also collect, and to PM for more info. That way there is no Overt connection to be preceived in the minds of trolls or 1st time visitors. Also people who might have the same interest a few months down the line can search and PM the people who responded to the query. As I stated before, the truth does not matter, only what other people perceive as the truth. |