Opex. a nice condition M1A1 modified, you will find plenty of information on these helmets here on WRF if you search the Bundeswehr and World helmet sections....as for the NVA net, quite common for these to end up on a BW helmet after 1991, as the entire DDR armies stock became available to the Bundeswehr, which at the time was expanded and new "East" divisions formed from ex NVA troops, some equipment like these nets found there way to BW clothing stores for issue.....most equipment though, was sold off the foreign countries.
As for the cammo strips, an any thing goes attitude in the BW with regards helmet cammo, BW troops since 1955 have begged borrowed or bartered for other NATO armies covers, U.S. Brit etc, or made their own from splintertarn/ameoba pattern zelt material, the first official cammo helmet covers were not issued in the BW until some time after the introduction of the Flecktarn uniform in early to mid 1990's.......and even then not all got them !
Prost ! Steve.
p.s. see here for makers of BRD kit...
Maker marks for Bundeswehr/ BRD items......
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