German Helmets in Hollywood

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This one on the other hand from the same episode being worn by another character, is a Mock Up.

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One more of Mr Spock, but the SS Men in the back are wearing Mock Ups it would seem.

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Real ones we suppose in Saints and Soldiers.

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A nice looking helmet with net from the movie a Midnight Clear, would guess helmet is a real one. We see of on the right Mock Up German vehicles, can't find other photos of them.

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Mock Ups from The Eagle Has Landed.

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Another from Valkyrie, look good, real ones. Although big time uniform insignia error, that NCO has Private/Corporal shoulder straps, not NCO.

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A real one from a recent movie called Wunderland.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5815078/

 

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Mock up M16 Helmet in the 166 classic THE BLUE MAX, though not to classic as we note to the British WWII SMLE Rifle No. 4 Mark I being used, still a great movie.

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Mock up's it would seem, in the 1969 The Battle of Britain.

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On 12/2/2021 at 8:36 PM, patches said:

Another from Valkyrie, look good, real ones. Although big time uniform insignia error, that NCO has Private/Corporal shoulder straps, not NCO.

Those look like Police because they wear the colorful Shoulder patch.  But they also wear an armband.  Did some military police wear armbands?  Or did all of them?  

 

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11 hours ago, Custermen said:

Those look like Police because they wear the colorful Shoulder patch.  But they also wear an armband.  Did some military police wear armbands?  Or did all of them?  

 

 

These are Army Military Police who wear the standard Heer uniform with Army (Heer) breast eagle and Police (Gendarmerie) sleeve eagle.  They also wear a brown cuff title of "Feldgendarmerie" on the left cuff and their collar tabs and shoulder boards are piped in orange Waffenfarbe (branch color).  When on duty they wear a metal gorget on the breast.  Navy MPs usually wore a gorget and breast eagle and sleeve eagle and some wore a cuff title.  Air Force MPs wore a gorget but just a breast eagle in practice.  Waffen-SS wore only an SS sleeve eagle (not a Pol. eagle) and a cuff title for their regiment or one indicating "SS-Feldgendarmerie" depending upon their assignment.  Probably more than you wanted to know and regulations changed during the war and Heer Feldgendarms did not always wear the sleeve eagle or cuff title together.  

 

I hope this is helpful and not any more confusing than necessary.  

 

 

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2 hours ago, SARGE said:

Probably more than you wanted to know and regulations changed during the war and Heer Feldgendarms did not always wear the sleeve eagle or cuff title together.  

No, but I am still confused about all the organizations and which were civilian and how they morphed into military.  

Back in the 1960's my brother had a board that had several examples of police epaulets mounted to it.  It was obviously a period salesman sample board.  I don't know what happened to it---assumed his son has it.  

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Custer. This WIKI might be helpful.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnungspolizei

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Also, in the early part of the war and before ORPO were issued these Armbands, because at that time te Military Police were not formed yet?? But during the war Soldiers from the many Arms of the Army, like Infantrymen,  Artillerymen, Smoke Troops, Signals, Engineers et al, were at times detailed for short periods to the Military Police as say extra personnel for whatever, and were issued these Armbands to wear, to show their authority and their powers on matters related to these duties, you know like in example Traffic Control, Checkpoints etc etc.

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From the 1950 BREAKTHROUGH, a whole bunch of M16/M18 helmets.

 

On Omaha Beach.

 

 

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And in the Hedgerow Country inland weeks later.

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A bunch of M42s in Cross of Iron, and two with covers, probably real ones too from Breakthough.

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Mock ups from the Sahara remake.

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Some more M16/M18s from BREAKTHROUGH.

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And two from Enemy at the Gates, maybe a mock up, the spilt heads look to low right, can't tel with the one with the cover

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Mock Ups in the 1980 VICTORY, but check out the one guy to the right of Stallone, he seems to wearing a Bahnhofswache Gorget, probably a Repro no!

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Whole load of Mock Up Luftwaffe ones from Hogan's Hero's  Love those Yellow Piped Shoulder Straps too 

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Now this one looks like a real one right, an M35 or M40, the only real one so far besides Schultz's M42.

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Here's a whole bunch from a 2013 German TV Mini Series Generation War. Some are real and some look like mock ups due to slightly protruding vent grommets.