That´s not true!
Less fortunated officers could also buy less luxurious helmets without the thin red and green covers on the visors. No obligation of that!
Philippe
Hello Philippe,
Thank you for your comment, contradiction is always interesting.
I see that the translation has been messing around again. I didn't mean "obliged". Let's say customary. But it doesn't matter:
---Let's just say that my observation of hundreds of "0fficier" helmets shows a visor and a coloured helmet cover in green and red underneath.
---This colouring must not have cost much extra, because the oilcloth on the Eigentum of the one-year enlisted men, for example, was brown, and so must have cost about the same.
---I'm not talking about the war helmets of the 0ffizierstellvertreter.
Here is a 0fficer's helmet cap, one of hundreds, from the M42.
Here is un Extra-Helm property for one-year volunteer among others :
The quality of the materials and finish on this helmet are on a par with other officer helmets, but not in green and red.
In conclusion :
green and red colours are the prerogative of an officer's helmet in the vast majority of cases, and vice versa, beige for 'non-officers'. The reverse may be true, but these are the exceptions that confirm the rule, as we say in France.