and was unused until the requirement for a distinct German helmet for the Volkspolizie (East German Police) and the National People’s Army (East German Army) arose after Germany was split down the middle into the ‘Democratic’ West Germany and ‘Soviet Communist’ East Germany after WW2 ...
It did gain popularity after 1945 in areas of north-eastern Poland, where people from present-day Lithuania and Belarus were resettled [64]. Our field research has confirmed the changes recorded in previously published sources. Specifically, in Belarus, we documented a variety of continuous ...