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Thank You - Tony. That means a lot to me. Steve.

Peter. Yes. I got all that the first time. And yes - that was my unfortunate wording on my original post. I was stupid. It's not going anywhere. Can we just draw a line under it now, please? It's a bit soul-destroying getting constantly reprimanded every day, when I just want to lick my...

I'm feeling quite ashamed now, of all the fuss and hoo-hah I've unwittingly caused by my naive and very foolish actions. In the beginning, it was just a bit of fun for me to create this 'mock' booklet, setting-out the history and development of the pickelhaube for my own amusement, more than any...

Fair enough. It stops here. Amateurish playing is all I've managed to achieve. It's obvious I'm completely out of my depth, so It stops here. Sorry for upsetting you and anyone else who's photos I 'nicked.' Consider my project confined to the scrapheap. Steve.

I'd like to show you a few, sample pages from my book, so you can see what I'm about. I never intended to diminish any of Tony Schnurr's marvellous work - but, the way I see it, ALL creative writing about a real subject like this HAS to somehow involve 'copying' something that has gone before...

Oh dear! I seem to have upset you greatly over this, Mr.Suciu, and for that I do apologise. You'd think that, at sixty-five years of age, I could not have been so naive as to try to steal someone else's pictures and information and pass them off as my own - which is evidently how it looks to...

Dear Sirs, I live in the U.K. and have always been passionately interested in pickelhauben since I was a schoolboy, back in the 'sixties. When I discovered Tony Schnurr's incredibly informative website, 'Kaiser's Bunker', that explained in astounding detail the pickelhaube's complete...