![]() ![]() The Stahlhelm was a steel helmet made to provide further head protection to the soldiers because the leather Pickelhaube didn’t do much against shrapnel, grenade and shell fragments. ![]() If you want a Pickelhaube without the helmet cover, you can find one here. At some point during the war the Pickelhaube’s spike was made detachable so that soldiers could wear them spikeless on the front (but there’s only so many military german helmet meshes I’m willing to make). The Pickelhaube was a spiked helmet worn by the germans and prussians military, in this case it is featured with its cloth helmet cover (Überzug) which was used since 1892 to keep it clean and to make it less visible in combat as the uncovered helmet was quite shiny. But even then and in the following war years there are records of some troops meeting, singing, exchanging gifts during cease fire on various celebrations sometimes despite orders. In 1915 truces were less common as the hierarchy wanted to avoid further fraternization and not repeat the events of the previous year’s Christmas truce (at least on the Allied’s side as far as I know). I believe I also read somewhere that german lines were decorated with candles and christmas trees. On Christmas in many places troops met on the no man’s land, sang christmas carols, played football/soccer and exchange season greetings, food, cigarettes and alcohol together. ![]() Happy Holidays everyone □ĭuring 1914 truces and fraternization between opposing forces on the western front weren’t rare especially between the British and the Germans. It seemed like the perfect occasion to mention the 1914 Christmas truce so here are some uniforms for the Great War, the first of a few I have in the works. ![]()
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