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German military helmets (the Stahlhelm) featured a flared rear rim and deep side skirts primarily to protect soldiers from shrapnel, debris, and downward-traveling fragments caused by artillery explosions in trenches.

Gotta love these videos with pictures of people with three hands.

The coal skuttle as it was called  ( cos it looked like a coal bucket) is a brilliant helmet and  bikers used them because the rain ran off them and not down your neck. The WW1 helmets were even better because they had a longer peak out front and you could tilt your head slightly down and ride without getting rain in your eyes.

Fun Fact: The flared Stahlhelm and broad-brimmed Brodie were very uncomfortable when the head was pressed against the ground - something that one must do often in modern warfare. The US M1 Steel Pot was fairly comfortable in that position.

This was a most informative and interesting presentation. While I had good information on the
M16/M40 German helmets, it was incomplete. This provided a much fuller understanding of these German helmets historical origins, design concepts and transformation in each world war over time.

Thank you in providing a detailed explanation and history of and about these helmets along with the history, engineering and evolution of other countries headwear and helmets over time through to more  recent history.

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The swiss helmets of that time looked most medieval of all.

The German stahlhelm was the most iconic military helmet ever invented.  It was at the same time modern and medieval appearing.  My favorites are the original M16 and M18 versions over the later scaled down M35 and M42.  Modern military helmets are designed after them.

Very informative and captivating spokesman

At last at 76, I now had an occasional question answered !

I am from Germany. My father served first in France and then at the Eastern Front, all the way to Crimea. He was severely injured three times. 1) Shot through the lungs. 2) Shot into the right lung. 3) AND HERE THE HELMET SAVED HIM....  Germans and Soviet / Russian troops were lopping hand grenades at each other in a trench system. One Soviet grenade landed between the feet of my father and his buddies. He took of his helmet, put it over the grenade, and sat with the right buttock on top of it. He lost about 1/4 of his right buttock but he and his buddies survived. I would not have been conceived and born, had it not been for that helmet, and my fathers very fast, and may I say "brave" deed.

Any resemblance between the German helmets and the modern kevlar ones used  by United States military is purely intentional.

My experience of the MkII: turn your head and the thing did not, the M35 turns with your head.  All 1931 onwards German types had the M31 liner.  The M35 is my favourite in my collection.

I can relate to the upper spine area being vulnerable.  Just had cervical 3/4 fusion surgery to cure a compression injury.  It was causing neuropathy numbing the hands and feet.  Just a "minor" injury had rendered my hands nearly useless and my feet so numb that I could no longer balance without using my eyes.

Very interesting story on Design

August "Beer," as it was first spelled here, was a German Jewish physicist, chemist, and mathematician. August "Bier," as finally spelled correctly, was the surgeon known for spinal anesthesia. Also the online photos of August Bier show a portly middle-aged man with a mustache. The clean-shaven image is perhaps assumed and created. AI is useful but still in the "look it up yourself" stage.

"War is over, if you want it..." -J Lennon - Y Ono      edit: Ai slop

It looked much sophisticated than the French and British ones. Good design always looks sophisticated...

My guess is that was to further protect the head from air burst shrapnel, but I just started watching.  My structural engineering background adds that a crease in metal will add significant structural rigidity