DDR Strichtarn

Strichtarn — Strichmuster, line pattern — was adopted by the East German National People’s Army in 1965 as the Kampfanzug 64. Designed with broken vertical brown strokes on a grey-green field, the pattern draws from a lineage of Wehrmacht-era rain designs and closely parallels the Czech vz. 60 Jehličí and Polish Wz.58 Deszczyk. Two types were produced: a thin-stroke original (1965–67) and a revised thicker-stroke version from 1968 that remained in production until German reunification in 1990. Beyond the NVA, East Germany exported the pattern in large quantities to communist movements across Africa — FAPLA, FRELIMO, SWAPO, UNITA — where it became known as rice fleck.