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A Czechoslovakian paratrooper wearing the special uniform made from 4-colour Sumpfmuster. This 1950s pattern is distinguished from the orginal wartime German camouflage by the addition of black. [Image: Daniel Peterson/The Crowood Press Ltd.]

Czechoslovakian 4-colour Sumpfmuster
Czechoslovakia

After World War 2, Czechoslovakia developed and issued no less than four distinct camouflage patterns that were based on the German wartime Sumpfmuster-43 (1943 "marsh pattern") camouflage pattern. The first of these designs, used in the late 1940s and early 1950s for shelter halves, was virtually identical to some versions of the German pattern and was probably printed using original wartime rollers.

This 4-colour Sumpfmuster camouflage, produced in the early-1950s, was the first major departure from the German design, inasmuch as black was added to the pattern. The pattern was used in the manufacture of a special paratroopers' camouflage combat uniform.

A second, almost identical, camouflage pattern appeared at around the same time, and was used exclusively for a shelter half/poncho. It is distinguished by small areas of white, which were produced by deliberately leaving some parts of the fabric unprinted. The introduction of white would make it a 5-colour Sumpfmuster camouflage.

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