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Weird US history pic of the day: Pyramid of helmets from dead German soldiers from WW1 in NYC
5 upvotes, 10 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "Weird US history pic of the day:

Pyramid of helmets from dead German soldiers from WW1 in NYC"
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Anonymous 1w

everything had so much aura back then

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Anonymous 1w

based

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Anonymous 1w

They’re not from dead soldiers, they retired the pickelhaube in 1916, and upgraded to steel helmets better suited for modern warfare. The US got ahold of the scrapped helmets.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

Thx for the fact check

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

Is it possible the propaganda at the time either explicitly or implicitly suggested they were results of lethal victory

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

This was from 1919, so the symbolism is there regardless. Everybody’s helmets looked the same once they switched to steel, British, American, French, German, Russian, Italian, etc., but the pickelhaube just much more easily represented Germans.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

It’s also worth noting that the pyramid wasn’t made of helmets, they were just hung on the surface, which you can see if you look closely.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

This is what they switched to, much less distinctive

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

But if you’re a fan of Star Wars, you may recognize a resemblance to a certain entity

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

There r several possibilities here, certain factions w/similar helmets, as well as certain prominent characters, each with a unique helm even within their factions, so I am not exactly sure what or who u mean

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