its so easy look at 1:30
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Oh damn! They were really made bullet proof, huh? Could also just be propaganda and a specially made example.
I mean the soviets have their body armour,we might as well be able to bounce subsonic pistol caliber when headshot
The body armor for the Soviets is a full flat 10% damage reduction so technically you could survive a tank shell by some rare miracle
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Guys, its about Decals xD
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If I remember correctly, helmets also have damage reduction. But headshot multiplier is so huge it doesn’t matter.
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Also an interesting story:
Germans stamped helmets in multiple stages, this made them more expensive but also more durable. Yankees had less stepps in the process and this caused issues in the helmet quality (wall thinning) and later they learned a thing or two from germans.
Though I don’t remember a source so this may be an urban legend. Still interesting.
They were f not. And certainly not from such a distance and not from rifle ammunition.
There was a reason for this thing:
That wouldn’t do much from that distance either…
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That would have been odd by the standards of the time. Despite the myth about the technological superiority of the Third Reich in every single damn aspect (people confuse innovation with complexity), it was the Yankees who excelled in everything, mainly because they had the raw materials, resources and time. But maybe here the Germans really excelled in design. Do you remember where you heard that?
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Overall I agree but ppl also tend to make the oposite mistake and just say that germans were bad at everything. Imo that’s equally stupid.
And since germans were quite advanced in deep stamping, it’s a plausable story.
I have a suspition but I need to check it before I make myself a fool 
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I’d say they were usually what is equivalent to the 2nd as there was their place in GDP in the world. Until, of course, the production capacity collapsed.
I’m genuinely interested;]
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They were not bullet proof - like all helmets of the era they were protection against shrapnel only, or pistols at long-ish range (for a pistol).
Likely that “rifle bullet” is loaded and designed to resemble the impact of shrapnel of a certain standard.
According to wiki the German helmets were made from significantly thicker steel than American ones, and so required more steps in the creation to work the steel slowly (to avoid prematurely work-hardening it.)
According to the wiki reference you can find this in:
Tenner, Edward, and Edward Tenner. Our own devices: The past and future of body technology. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, p.252 
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Could also just be propaganda and a specially made example.
The damage you see is a kill
Also before Customization was a thing you could change cosmetics by dragging the soldiers out of the squad and putting them back in for instance to get rid of white German helmets in Moscow.