Flecktarn - History

History

The Germans had experimented before World War II, and some army units used "splinter" pattern camouflage. Waffen-SS combat units experimented from 1935 with various patterns. The first and many other SS-camouflages was designed by Prof. Johann Georg Otto Schick.

  • Platanenmuster – "Plane tree pattern" (1937 to 1942) – spring/summer- and autumn/winter variations
  • Rauchtarnmuster – "smoke pattern" (1939 to 1944) – spring/summer- and autumn/winter variations
  • Palmenmuster – "palm pattern" (circa 1941 – ?) – spring/autumn variations
  • Beringtes Eichenlaubmuster – "oak leaf B" (1942 to 1945)
  • Eichenlaubmuster – "oak leaf A" (1943 to 1945) – spring/summer- and autumn/winter variations
  • Erbsenmuster – "44 dot" (1944 to 1945)– Originally meant to replace all other SS camouflage patterns
  • Leibermuster (1945)

None of the names of the German camouflage patterns are authentic, with the exception of Leibermuster.

  • The plane tree pattern (summer side) in an early version from 1937

  • The plane tree pattern (autumn side) in an early version from 1937

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