With its distinctive spike adorning the top of the helmet, they were used by German armies for decades before Germany became a unified empire. Propaganda in the United States during World War I ...

As a result, the US now contains one of the largest supplies of German spiked helmets in the world ... the colours of the American flag. The US only joined the war in the latter half of ...

M1916 Stahlhelm - German Helmet World War One For Germany, it’s early war helmet was the leather spike helmet called the pickelhaube which was expensive, offered little protection and was ...