Exactly this. My grandmother lived under the Nazis and she said they were fucking idiots. Exactly the same type of incompetent blowhards. The whole hyper scientific ubermensch BS in the cultural zeitgeist is so frustrating.
I blame all the WWII video games and movies that played up the myth to have more interesting villains than the sleazy shit stains that they actually were.
Well it's a movie, so there's that. Helmets primary use is to stop shrapnel and protect against bonking your head.
I've heard stories of, and seen pictures of helmets stopping bullets, but there's lots of factors. How far away did the bullet originate? Did it ricochet off something first? War is a very chaotic environment. Lots of weird things happen. There are stories from WWI and WWII where a bullet was stopped by a bible in a breast pocket, but it's really up to random chance.
I believe most modern helmets are rated to stop a 9MM, but beyond that it's a crap shoot.
Would somebody ban this shitheel please?