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The Lawspeaker
10-10-2011, 12:21 AM
http://www.bundesarchiv.de/aktenreichskanzlei/1919-1933/v010/mu2/mu21p/images/Bild%20102-07709_big.jpg

http://www.phoenixinvestmentarms.com/917DWM1918%2020%20Pol/poelicehelparm4w.jpg

I stumbled upon an American propaganda video about the Germans (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StlvUP5PDRk) and I noticed that the policemen wore this distinctive helmet or cap (look at 3:36). Does anyone know whether it was just was just worn by the police in Berlin or whether it was used throughout Germany and when it was taken out of circulation ?
Saturni
10-10-2011, 12:26 AM
They're called shakos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shako
The Lawspeaker
10-10-2011, 12:28 AM
They're called shakos.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shako
Thanks. I immediately checked the German wiki page.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/e/ed/Preusischer_Tschako.jpg

Nach 1945 blieb der Tschako in der britischen Besatzungszone, in Ost- und West-Berlin und der SBZ/DDR Teil der Polizeiuniform. In beiden Teilen Deutschlands wurde der Tschako bis Mitte der 1960er Jahre, in Nordrhein-Westfalen bis Anfang der 1970er Jahre getragen.


They really should bring them back. :thumb001:

I find it weird that the Germans are now also in the process of switching (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polizeiuniform_(Deutschland)#Umstellung_auf_Blau) their uniforms to blue. Another thing to fall in line with the rest of Europe -- as if the hallmark of a German copper isn't the fact that he wears a green uniform.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41717000/jpg/_41717128_police416_pa.jpg
Contra Mundum
10-10-2011, 12:32 AM
New Jersey State Troopers
http://i43.tinypic.com/20zwwph.jpg
Saturni
10-10-2011, 12:40 AM
Good pics showing the police shade of green
http://www.germanhelmet.com/1533.htm
The Lawspeaker
10-10-2011, 12:43 AM
Good pics showing the police shade of green
http://www.germanhelmet.com/1533.htm
Hmm it should be reintroduced .. (well.. without the swastika) of course and it could use by municipal police services or by the State Police. It would probably be a bit too cumbersome for the Federal Police though or for highway patrols.