Germanic Tribes

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Don't be fooled by the written sources. The Germans were more capable of working iron than we would assume from sources like Tacitus.

This is true. It would be more accurate to say that they were a people of limited resources, some tribes like the Aestii didn't get round to exploiting natural bog iron until the 4th/5th century AD. Don't forget that the western tribes had the great La Tene and Halstatt cultures on their doorstep with which to trade and aquire weapons and as Jona rightly states the Germans got a material boost after the Teutoburg disaster.

The helmets of the germanic tribes. I have seen many helmets that they say are barbarian helmets with horns, wings, and such. Which ones did the germanic people wear, when they wore them. Captured helmets from the Romans and Greeks, La Tene style helments, or did they have there own style of helmet?

Which helmets are you refering to :?: The only winged and horned helmets i have seen are from a dubious Victorian romantic painting depicting a horde of Germans descending on a broken Roman line in the Teutoburg forest.
Some nobles may have obtained Celtic or later Roman helmets but they would be very very rare. Tacitus i think mentions animal skins/faces worn on the head. Check out this German site

http://www.chasuari.de/

The third gallery page has a warrior in a simple form of helmet possibly worn by nobles or upper class warriors.