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#120671 02/13/2006 07:37 PM
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It's winter holiday here - the whole family has the flu, so time for some writing.

Here is another Danish related W-SS helmet from my collection. It was originally "captured" when a young Danish boy was a pupil at a major Danish boarding school on Seeland approximately 40 miles from Copenhagen in May 1945 just after the liberation. The Danish resistance movement used the school as a storage for confiscated German weapons and equipment. The pupils managed to "liberate" a few items from the storage including this helmet. He kept the helmet until 1985 when he gave it to his friend and I got it in turn last year.

It's a standard "Q" helmet which at some stage was painted black, but is has been carefully removed by the previous owner except on the inner lower skirt. It's named, but the name appears to ge German, not Danish.

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Details of the decal

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Name in liner

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Black paint remaining in the interior lower skirt

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Another nice helmet with a Danish connection. Thanks for showing. It's too bad the previous owner decided to remove the outer black paint. However, he did a pretty good job of it as the feldgrau looks almost untouched.

Is there any any evidence that this was once a DD M40?

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Thanks! No, there are no signs of any other decals at all.

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I agree with Darryl,
looks very nice, but would ahve been nicer when black

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I think there is some misunderstanding with respect to the black paint - it's a thick black oil paint which was obviously applied to the helmet sometime after the war and subsequently removed, at least from the exterior. I have seen this happen before particulary when younger kids in the 1950/60s were given the helmets to play with. Had it been a satin-black issue helmet with SS decal then it would of course have been a disaster.

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Sorry about the misunderstanding. I agree completely; if the helmet was post-war painted black then getting it off was a good idea. I am amazed at the skill demonstrated in removing the paint. I wouldn't have known unless you told me.

Those darn pesky 1950/60s kids! Cool

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you know the history of this item,
but if i would paint the helmet to a kid to play with, i wouldn;t ahve painted the innerskirt
or maybe i'm too lazy.

And the paint, and esspecially the decal show no harm done by the black paint, or the removal of this

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Nice, Prorege! You're lucky since the helmet only received "oil paint" that could be removed easily by turpentine or something. Also, the black color doesn't stand out even if it stayed in the minute scratches or cavities. Love that decal! Wink

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