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unusual facts about Nationale Volksarmee



Battledress

East Germany's Nationale Volksarmee first pattern was the 1956 Russisches Tarnmuster based, as the name suggests, on the Soviet "amoeba" designs.

Waffenfarbe

East German (DDR) Nationale Volksarmee uniforms initially wore the waffenfarbe as worn by the Wehrmacht, i.e. as base and filling of the collar and sleeve patches and as a piping around the shoulder boards/shoulder straps.


see also

NVA

National People's Army, or Nationale Volksarmee, the army of former German Democratic Republic