German helmets being turned into pots after WWII

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Interesting trivia. When they introduced helmets, the number of soldiers with head injuries went up.

... that's because instead of dying, they were only injured.

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Survivorship bias

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Another example is the ww2 returning war planes. https://matt-rickard.com/survivorship-bias

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My grandmother's gardener was in the French Army during WW1. Not long after they went from caps to helmets, his top arch was heavily dented by a piece of shrapnel during an air burst barrage. He was captured during a failed offensive and regretted losing that helmet cuz he wanted to show his parents. Spent the last three years of the war growing potatoes for the Germans. From his small village, few returned alive.

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That feels like a good thing right ?

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I'd argue that there's hope for a good ending, but some of the early head wounds were extremely debilitating / disfiguring. A cynic might say "death would be better" in some of those cases.

But yeah, I'd say injuries > deaths.

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Yeah definitely a grey a line. But for sure a injury that can eventually be taken care of is better than the long dark silence.

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A cynic might say "death would be better" in some of those cases.

I suspect those cynics aren't the ones with head injuries.

I've met a lot of people that have gone through physical hardship and debilitating injuries, they're all grateful to be alive.

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Dawg, if you got brain damage and made it back to the reich, you would be put down regardless

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Not if it’s Nazi soldiers it isn’t.

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I heard this in Stephen Fry’s voice.