Prussian Pickelhaube
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The Prussian Pickelhaube is an unlockable headwear item for the Medic. It appears as a metal, team-colored pickelhaube helmet associated with the Prussian army and in propaganda and popular fiction, with the German military. The spike located at the top deals no damage under any circumstance.
Painted variants
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Trivia
- The Template:W (plural Pickelhauben) is named from the old German Pickel or "point" and Haube or "bonnet," a general word for headgear.
- The Pickelhaube was worn in the 19th and 20th centuries by German military, firefighters, and police.
- The Pickelhaube was originally designed in 1842 by King Frederick William IV of Prussia.
- The Pickelhaube was featured prominently in Allied propaganda during the first World War, then becoming an icon of Imperial Germany.
- The hat description was written by This_Is_Not_Spy
- While real versions of this hat have military emblems or other badges on them, the Medics Pickelhaube is missing a Team Fortress 2 symbol on it.
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