biscuits brown wrote:Housil it was the Italians who first introduced camouflage materials in 1929, although initially they used it mostly for tentage, etc. The first official Italian camouflage smock was introduced by them in 1936, quite late.
But they didn´t issued complet uniforms to an whole army like the Germans did (
to Waffen SS (can´t say this loud over here...
) ).
But you are right, Italy introduced the
M29 Telo Mimetico to their troops and that pattern was in use until 1992!
But you are also right, that Italian camo was used by Germans (especiall Army (Wehrmacht) in lack of own camo uniforms. Not like Waffen SS, they had their own stuff and equipment)
biscuits brown wrote:
I have seen pictures of 12 SS in Normandy wearing Italian pattern DPM, thought that was in a Mil magazine I had about 20 years ago.
The 12th "Hitlerjugend" was introduce in 1943. A present to the *Fuehrer*. So no evidence of early camouflage
biscuits brown wrote:
The very first modern camouflage uniform was introduced in Feb 1915 by the French army
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designed by artist Louis Guingot.
As much as I read, Monsieur Guinot was an painting artist and paintet (!) a pattern an a "jacket" to demonstrate it´s camouflage effect. That was denied by French leaders and I never saw any French WW2 soldier in camouflage uniform.
So I´m back to my first thesis. Germany was the very first country that issued camouflage uniforms to a complet army (Waffen SS) and was the first country that could (industrial) print patterns on webbing.
That knowlage helped German industry a lot after WW2 to come back to business in city´s like
"Augsburg", famous for their webbing production.
, followed by British dpm 
