The quickest and simplist answer would have been, would be that the East German soldiers being given a lightweight flecktarn smock to wear over their uniforms to give them something of the West German uniform so they would be seen as 'friendly' forces during the heat of battle. That was something we had said happened in our campaign back on the Ike.
We had used the lull between the West German invasion and the East Germans joining in the battle was spent with the East Germans debating what they where going to do, and this would be when the evidence of how their best troops where used as cannon fodder by their Soviet 'allies' would have been shown to military and civilian alike.
It was during this period the West Germans would have provided the light-weight flektarn smocks to the East German units that had joined them in battle.
We had the East Germans keeping the NVA unit designations (such as Motor Rifle Division instead of Panzergrenadier) and deployed as their own formations resupplied by those forces trained on the same kinds of weapons and equipment that they would be using (such as the regional training commands described earlier on this thread).
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