Danziger 'deaths-head' police bandsmen

[inimicus]

(mod- cross posting this to helmets fosum hope that's ok)

screen capture from a IIId reich tv documentary. grinning before or after burning alive the brave polish postal workers, we wonder. insanely rare helmets in any case!

[Rick C]

With respect Sir, how do we get “grinning before or after burning brave polish postal workers” from a clip of film, spliced into a “tv documentary”. Did the docudrama show these guys “burning” poles or “brave polish postal workers” or did they just spool up and splice in some tasty war footage?

I only ask because so many of the “documentary” pieces produced on WW2 and the Germans are about as accurate as the evening news presented by Wolf Blitzer of CNN...

[Sonderkommando]

With respect Sir, how do we get “grinning before or after burning brave polish postal workers” from a clip of film, spliced into a “tv documentary”. Did the docudrama show these guys “burning” poles or “brave polish postal workers” or did they just spool up and splice in some tasty war footage?

I only ask because so many of the “documentary” pieces produced on WW2 and the Germans are about as accurate as the evening news presented by Wolf Blitzer of CNN...

+1

[Rick C]

Were your docudrama referring to this event (http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Defen...fice_in_Danzig) then one might certainly perceive two sides to the story.

Clearly, the Poles, armed with machine guns (BARs), grenades and other weapons and commanded by Polish military officers would, by today’s standards in the twenty first century be called ‘terrorists’ or what the German police/army called “illegal combatants”. When presented with heavily armed and entrenched terrorists the legitimate authority ~ the free City of Danzig’s ‘Order Police’ aided by Danzig Home Defense units ~ took the building.

My reading of the events is no less legitimate than your docudrama’s portrayal of “brave polish postal workers”. The bottom line being, after action reports, laden with post war propaganda, have little bearing on the helmet pictured. Were less spurious German bashing carried out perhaps more scholarship on the actual item (a very cool and rare lid to be sure) might be forthcoming rather than the requisite rehashing of high school level ‘history’ for the sake of etching in stone the fact that the Germans were the evil forces of Mordor.

No offense to you personally. I simply tire of some of the German bashing that rears its head as if to infer crimes weren’t perpetrated against Germans ~ civilians & military personnel ~ both pre and post war.

We’re here for the militaria rather than why the war was fought.