Paradehelm Erste Ausführung

[iannima]

I was browsing the German speaking forum (it counts as a language exercise ) when I came across this photograph of the training for the 7th of October parade probably at Schoenefeld airport (notice the tent in the background).



Now is it just me, or the helmet of the officer on the left looks very different? We know from Torsten that plastic helmets were supposed to be issued for the parade. Could it be that they are all plastic helmets and that the officer on the far left got a first pattern one by chance? That would be very entertaining...

[iannima]

On Sunday I went to a Militaria fair where I had the enormous pleasuree of meeting up with David-H . as we were discussing the FINER points of DDR collecting we were drawn to a couple of plastic helmets in a box nearby. One still had the absolutely HORRIBLE original cloth cover. How could I leave it.... :


The helmet is of the later six rivets type:

... and the adjustable liner...

I was noticing with David that actually these later ones are rather hard to come by on Ebay.de, where the three-rivets variety with a fixed liner and an individual size are more common. I suspect that the NVA found the versatility of the adjustable liner a great asset and confined to storage the earlier ones...

[Viktor]

Good Kill Genosse iannima.