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04-20-2012 09:06 AM
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Re: A couple of Relics - Number 2
Can't comment!
Never heard of the 'Holger Danske', one learns every day!
Seems the HD man had a hard time...
cheers
|<ris
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Re: A couple of Relics - Number 2
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Re: A couple of Relics - Number 2
"Trippy" that's one out there lid Bud!
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Re: A couple of Relics - Number 2
I hope it's real but how would you ever know?
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Re: A couple of Relics - Number 2
Very true Glenn, hope it's real. Looks decent though
Jason
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Re: A couple of Relics - Number 2
Hi Scout,
WOW - thanks for all that info, I'm impressed .... I assume this is a 'pet' subject for you?
I too hope that it is legit ( just for the history / rarity ) and when it does show up I will do some decent close-ups
( there are plenty of paint and patina experts here )
For $100 I took the chance - if all is good then I'm a happy camper, if not then it's a nice relic anyway!
Cheers, Dan
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Re: A couple of Relics - Number 2
In the FOURTH of Scout's photos ( the one with the resistance men in the car ) two of the men wearing Danish helmets have 'HD' painted on the front. ( Other Danish helmet wearers dont )
I can imagine if one was to wear a captured German helmet one WOULD paint one's allegience onto the helmet to avoid being shot by one's own side! ...... another point of logic towards it's legitimacy??
Dan
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Re: A couple of Relics - Number 2
Looks like three helmets with painted letters on them.
First one standing to the left has his helmet pushed back, but you can just see that something is painted on his helmet.
Then the bloke with the Czech helmet and then two more with letters on their helmets.
In the other pic with the gladiator(?) helmet: Could be interesting to see what was painted on it. Unfortunately the pics is too small.
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I can imagine if one was to wear a captured German helmet one WOULD paint one's allegience onto the helmet to avoid being shot by one's own side! ...... another point of logic towards it's legitimacy??
Dan
Most certainly. Good point.
Further more they would paint their own danish helmets to show to which group, they belonged to.
In early '45 everybody and his brother was suddenly a resistance fighter and wore Resistance Movement armbands, helmets and (if they could get their sweaty mitts on them) guns.
From being very small (some say as small as app 1ooo active fighters (not counting owners of safe houses and others who furnished food, clothing etc), the numbers of the Resistance Movement swelled to thousands.
That in comparison to the thousands who joined the Wehrmacht and the Free Corps Danmark and fought on the Eastern Front and (in the end) Berlin (which was by then The Eastern Front).
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