⚠️ This video represents no political ideology or intends to harbour political views. This is a video made to inform and guide people about the Decals (Real vs Fake) used on Luftschutz Organisation Helmets during the Third Reich Era of Germany. ⚠️

Thank you for watching this video, I apologise if the quality lacks anywhere or if it's not the easiest video to watch. The Luftschutz organisation is an area I'm highly interested in and have spent a lot of time looking into so I like to share my knowledge and understanding to help newer collectors or any collector who wants an entry into Luftschutz collecting. If you have any questions or see anything in specific feel free to leave a like and a comment too!

In this video I am giving an in depth run down on how to identify real and fake Luftschutz decals. There are lots of examples out there and lots of dealers past and present who have sold a variety of different helmets with lots of real decal variants and/or replica ones. I will not be naming and shaming any specific dealer for selling fake decals; This video is purely technical and breaks it down to the bare bones and shows you the viewer how to identify a real decal compared to a fake one. Hopefully by watching this video you're able to save yourself some coins when looking at purchasing one of these helmets yourself.

Thank you for watching & reading! 🥳

❗ Information
I missed a few key things in this video and didn't provide full clarity because I was concerned with how long the video was when recording it;
- This video isn't made to shame or bash sellers or discredit any particular seller, it's made purely for informational purposes on what I believe to be the best ways to determine a real and a fake decal on these types of helmets,
- The stencil decals are most likely fakes however there are a few examples out there where they are able to be seen and they may be real but they are incredibly scarce to determine the origin and the backstory of them with any certainty.


Chapters;
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Information on the Manufacturing Process of the Decals
2:33 Fake Decals
8:13 Real Decals
11:24 Outro

Citations;
'c. weitze.net the LSWJ(?) Stencil Decal Image'
'c. Epic Militaria the Pocher Decal Image'
'c. WarHats.eu the M&B Decal Image'
'c. Helmet Decals of the Third Reich Book the Luftschutz Stencil Decal Image'
'c. EagleMilitaria.it'
'c. Eastbourne Auctions One of the Real Decals'

Citation list for this video will be added to over-time as a large array of images were used and back-tracing to find the source for each will take some time.