Czech Gendarmerie - Early Style?

[wbarringer]

I'm looking for some help with this helmet I'm researching. I don't know anything about Czech forces during World War II, but as I've begun to acquire more and more knowledge about it, I still can't find anything related to this helmet.

Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated.

[NickG]

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This thread might help...
I own the Czech gendarm uniform viewable in posts 2, 3, 7 and 11
(which I mistook as being Bohemia-Moravia army "regieringstruppe" military police... because of the green color... but its police/gendarm)
Helmet images: see posts 46-50
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...hlight=gendarm

[wbarringer]

Indeed, it does help! Thank you so much for the links.

Are there any sources on Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate uniforms, or is the best source "Foreign Legions of the Third Reich Vol 3"?

[NickG]

That would indeed be the best English language reference, this publication, as far as I know!
I'm sure there are other good references also, specifically in the Czech language...but limited audience...

[wbarringer]

I'll add it to my list of languages I need to learn, but that list is getting really long.

[lbsr]

It is Protectorate Böhmen-Mähren Gendarmerie helmet (due to Protectorate coat-of-arms).
Pre-war Czechoslavakian Gendarmerie use these hekmets to from cca 1928 but with Czechoslovakian coat-of-arms.

In "Foreign Legions of the Third Reich Vol. 3" there are many innacuracies and mistakes, itis out of date a little, I'm afraid