Stylized palette rendering — not a reproduction of the licensed pattern.
Flaechentarn (Blumentarn)
East Germany's first camouflage — a 1950s four-color blob print nicknamed the potato pattern.
Family
East Germany
Era
Historical
In service
1956–1967
Environments
woodland
History
The DDR introduced Flaechentarn in the mid-1950s, a four-color blob print used on uniforms and shelter-quarters. Strichtarn replaced it from 1965, and surviving items are collector pieces today.
In the field
Reasonable blob disruption in green terrain; short-lived before the rain pattern replaced it.
Where it served
Eastern Europe
Stylized region map — where the pattern was designed to work and primarily served.
Related patterns
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