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Camo is the name of an imagined 1960 camouflage pattern of the combat uniforms and personal equipment of several armies.
The streak camouflage pattern was developed for use at all times of the year in Central Europe from the color print 1931 ( splinter camouflage ) of the Reichswehr . Visually, the streaked camouflage appears as a two-color camouflage pattern that takes up the tradition of color printing and, in a reduced form, copies the dashed lines pointing in one direction.
Strichtarn in different countries
Poland
In Poland 1956 Splittertarnmuster had been introduced, which completely in his overall appearance of the Reichswehr-chromatic colors printed in 1931 oriented. However, it was taken out of service as early as 1960. During this time, the Polish streak camouflage pattern (wz58 "Deszczyk" - rain ) appeared as a successor , of which there are several variants. Poland is considered to be the "inventor" of the simplified streak pattern.
Czechoslovakia
In 1953, the Czechoslovak People's Army introduced a camouflage pattern based on the swamp camouflage pattern of the German Wehrmacht . In 1963 this was replaced by a simple Strichtarn pattern ("jehliči" - needle ).
German Democratic Republic
At the National People's Army (NVA) and the Ministry of the Interior (MdI) a flecktarn pattern ("Blumentarn") was produced until 1967 , which was used until 1971.
Starting in 1965, this was slowly replaced by the Strichtarn pattern ("One line - no line") based on the Polish model. Camo was (along with a new field suit, the "battle dress 64", and other equipment Sturmgepäck , tents, helmet -Tarnbezüge, canteens u, garment bags, equipment bags. Ä.) In the NVA presented. The pattern takes up a tradition of splinter camouflage and copies in a radically simplified form its dashed lines pointing in one direction.
The GDR streaked yarn was produced in two variants, variant 1 with thinner brown lines on a sand-yellow background (manufactured from around 1965 to 1966/67) and variant 2 with slightly thicker brown lines on an olive-brownish ground (manufactured from around 1967 to 1990).
The Strichtarn pattern was also used by other armed formations, such as the customs administration of the GDR from 1971 . It disappeared with the dissolution of the NVA in 1989 from the general military use in Germany, even if after the German unity transitional yet camo uniforms of the People's Police readiness were used in the standby police forces of the countries.
In addition to the splinter camouflage introduced by the Swedish armed forces in 1990 , Strichtarn is the final stage in the further development of the Reichswehr's 31st colored overprint.
Bulgaria
From the end of the 1960s, various camouflage patterns based on the splinter camouflage pattern were introduced in Bulgaria. This included a simplified version, similar to the Strichtarns of the other Warsaw contracting states.
South West Africa (today: Namibia)
The government of the GDR, which supported the South West African SWAPO in its fight against the racist government, also equipped contingents of the Liberation Army with uniforms. But also the opponents of SWAPO, the South African Army (SADF), equipped some units with camouflage and produced identical copies of the NVA uniform on a small scale.
South Africa
In South Africa , uniforms with streaked camouflage patterns were still in use in the army after 2003.
Yugoslavia
With the dissolution of the NVA from 1989/1990, the uniform stocks were also sold. For example, NVA strichtarn clothing was last seen on a larger scale among mercenaries in Europe during the Yugoslav Wars (1991 to 1999).
literature
- Daniel Peterson, Wehrmacht camouflage uniforms and post-war variants , Solingen 1996, ISBN 3-939700-31-2 .
- Daniel Peterson, Waffen-SS Camouflage Uniforms and Post-War Derivatives , Ramsbury, Marlborough 1995, ISBN 1-86126-474-7 .
- Klaus-Ulrich Keubke and Manfred Kunz, Military Uniforms in the GDR 1949–1990 , Hamburg, Berlin, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-8132-0835-4 .
- Michael Krauss, The camouflaged summer field service clothing of the GDR 1956 - 1990 , Volume 1 to 4, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 9783741282232 , ISBN 9783741289668 , ISBN 9783741290831 , ISBN 9783741290862 .
