German WWII Mines: The Enemy Below

Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Germany was the world leader in land mine warfare, deploying some 35 million mines during the Second World War and developing mine designs and doctrines that remain influential to this day. In this video, I visit the Royal Canadian Artillery Museum in Shilo, Manitoba to look at some of these iconic mine designs.

0:00 Intro
1:58 Tellermine 29 / ZDZ 29 Fuze
4:12 Tellermine 35 / Tellermine 42
5:28 Tellermine 43
6:41 Defusing Tellermines / T.Mi.Z 43 Fuze
8:51 Unusual Tellermine Variants
9:36 Tellermine Copes
9:56 Riegelmine 43
13:04 Hohl-Sprung Mine 4672 / Panzerstabmine 43
13:59 Minimal-Metal Mines
14:30 B-Stabmine
14:46 Holzmine 42
15:56 Topfmine A/B/C
18:12 S-mine
19:52 The “Step off the Mine” Myth
21:11 S-Mine Copies
21:38 Behelfs-Schutzenmine S.150 / W-1
22:58 Stockmine / Betonmine
23:12 Schu-Mine 42
24:00 Flaschenmine / Glasmine 43
25:11 Outro


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SOURCES:

Croll, Mike, The History of Land Mines, Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley, UK, 1998

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