Original wartime photographs can assist historians, collectors, and researchers establish a better understanding of their subject.  Often times photographic evidence for a particular helmet configuration can verify or dispel long-held collector beliefs.  German-Helmets.org is pleased to present this indexed database containing more than 300 original wartime photos depicting the German helmet in use from 1921 through 1945.

Many of the images archived here are from other sources found online, museum archives, from private collections, and also from other little known sources.  The original source is credited with each photograph and is copyrighted unless otherwise noted.  Please enjoy the photographs, learn from them, and if you have any that you would like to share, please contact the webmaster.

If you have a specific need to use an image from these archives on your own website or in a publication of any kind, please contact the webmaster for information and permission agreements.  Many of these images are one-of-a-kind, privately owned, and/or obtained with significant effort from other sources.  Most have never been formally published in any written work on the German helmet.  As a result all ownership/copyright privileges will be maintained and protected.  We ask that you respect copyright laws as noted on this website.