To many visitors the discovery of the "Big Hole" as it has become known was the stuff of dreams. This location of the processing of a mass of German POW's at the end of the war in the West has revealed an almost unheard of number of items of equipment.
Most notably it has provided the collecting world with an example of the ministry marked M38 Fällschirmjägerhelm. Something unheard of until last year.
Left and below we show two more nice examples of the German Army steel helmet,
At left we see the M40 army helmet with wire camouflage loop as it came out of one of the many holes in the area, and then after careful cleaning. Even the decal has survived the 60 years underground.

At left, another helmet, this one has been cracked by the pressure of other helmets and tons of earth on top of it.
Once again after cleaning we can now clearly see the surname of the former owner.
Soldat Nöbel was just one of the many who queued up to be questioned and then stripped of his helmet, cartridge pouches and other field equipment before going into the compound.
Without any further information on Nöbel, (there many such people by this name in Germany), we can only be sure that he survived the war.

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