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Old 01-07-16, 05:05 AM
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Salvaged German steel helmets in a Berlin factory being made into saucepans. Here a partially completed saucepan is polished.
http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...8874/large.jpg

Salvaged German steel helmets in a Berlin factory being made into saucepans. Here a workman hammers on the neck protecting part of the helmet to break it away from the main body.
http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...8871/large.jpg

Salvaged German steel helmets in a Berlin factory being made into saucepans. Here a hand operated press is used to reshape the crown of a helmet into the flat base of a saucepan.
http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...8872/large.jpg

Here a welder fixes handles and fills in the air holes in the converted helmet.
http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...8873/large.jpg

Here a German housewife uses one of the finished helmet saucepans in her kitchen.
http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...8875/large.jpg
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Very interesting, thanks for posting. The finished product looks to be enamelled, who would have ever thought that it once was on someone's head.

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Old 01-07-16, 08:30 AM
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I thought these were considered quite collectible in their own right?

Certainly not something that I consider to be a nightmare unless you are obsessed with WWII German helmets, there are after all many many 1000's of them surviving without stressing over those made into pans. I actually thing it was very good that they found a use for them.


Here are some in a museum in Amsterdam.
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These look as though they are Luftschutze helmets from the insignia stencil.

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For many reasons I don't collect German items, but I find the thought of owning one of these saucepans more appealing than the original helmet.
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For many reasons I don't collect German items, but I find the thought of owning one of these saucepans more appealing than the original helmet.
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I second that..

Well I've learn't something today..

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They could also have made chamber pots out of the helmets.......

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No images I'm afraid but at age c 16, I saw a farmer near Cortina, Italy using a couple of Wehrmacht helmets - with long wooden handles nailed on - as liquid silage scoops. Quite appropriate I thought (as a cruel 16 year old) Mike
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Could they have been from a Panzer division?

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You're on the ball - I like that! 😀
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Out of the frying pan into the - "FIRE!"

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These look as though they are Luftschutze helmets from the insignia stencil.

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They are indeed, Rob. And it just goes to show what a "tin-pot" organisation it was too!

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She should consider herself very lucky indeed to have a kitchen, so many people in Europe did not, as a direct result of her countrymen.

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Here a German housewife uses one of the finished helmet saucepans in her kitchen.
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