German World War II camouflage patterns
![Erbsenmuster (pea dot pattern), designed by Johann Georg Otto Schick and worn by the Waffen-SS, 1944](/Images/godic/202502/11/Waffen-SS_Camouflage2206.jpg")
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German World War II camouflage patterns formed a family of disruptively patterned military camouflage designs used for clothing and for Zeltbahn shelter halves. German camouflage developed from the 1931 Splittertarnmuster ("splinter camouflage pattern"), which combined a pattern of interlocking irregular green, brown, and buff polygons with vertical "rain" streaks.