World War Two German Land Mines
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- Land mines played an important defensive role during the second world war. Both the Axis and Allied powers would utilise these machines of war. But it was perhaps the Germans who were the biggest users of them. By wars end they would have 26 different types. In this video we look at the German Land Mines of World War Two.
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Which German land mine do you think was the most effective during World War Two?
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Bouncing Betty
Riegelmine 43
"I'll get the metal detector, shovel, and bomb,💣 squad to find the bouncing betty?"
The bouncing Betty was definitely a nasty little thing, i remember as a kid i watched Blown Away with Tommy Lee Jones and they had a mock up of a bouncing Betty mine they were trying to show a new Bomb squad guy how to disarm, and they had placed one in the floor of the shop and the new guy stepped on it. Well it was filled with paint i think, definitely a teachable moment. The one thing movies and tv get wrong about mines is that once you step on it, it goes boom, but in the movies and tv they portray the mine only going boom once you remove your foot from the mine. Im sure there were some that may have acted like that, but for the most part if you stepped on a land mine you were screwed, maybe 3 seconds or less, but even then shrapnel will fly right through you, or you lose your legs. Even though they are a genius war invention, they still plague the world today.
The last WW2 minefield was cleared in the UK around 1975, it took that long. I was involved in clearing WW2 minefields in North Africa in 1974/5, particularly in Tunisia in the Kasserine Gap. After 30 years in the hot sunshine the mines had cooked nicely and were often extremely unstable. The roads and some farming land was cleared at the end of the war but there had been no focussed effort to clear the whole pass which is up to 2 miles across. Clearance started by getting hold of any maps held by all countries that had fought there , though many mines had moved, or been moved. As your video suggests, some of the anti-tank mines were booby trapped and these were often still as effective as the day they were set.
Thank you for sharing your story Crusty Camper! Very dangerous work you did there
"Someone get me the metal detector?"
People recover the mines remove the explosives and sell it
@@joeerickson516 Mm i would perfer an African giant pouched rat to do that for me. 🙃
The S mine let down was the initiating powder made of black power which is susceptible to moisture which made it erratic in performance, the S mine effectiveness was about three month in the ground thus the S mine 44 was made and more reliable and copied in post war years. The Germans made more wooden box mines than metallic. .
My grandfather - who, along with my grandmother - raised me from the age of three, joined the British army (1st East Surreys) in 1931. He survived the Dunkirk evacuation, fought all through North Africa and was wounded in Randazzo, Sicily on August 12th 1943. He was leading his section on house to house clearance when he sprung an “S” mine which wounded him in the waist, groin, chest and left arm. He was discharged as unfit for service in 1944. The sad part of it was that he was an accomplished long distance and cross country runner as well as a career soldier, all of which was were abruptly stopped due to that single incident. I followed in his footsteps and had a good long career in the Army, but not in his Regiment which was disbanded in the year I was born. He was a great bloke and an exemplary soldier.
As an aside: His Brother served with the 1st Essex, joining in the same year. My great grandad (who lived until I was 18!) refused to let them both join the same Regiment due to his experiences in WWI, and the fact that two great uncles of mine - brothers and only children - were both killed at the Somme.
I know a technique to finding landmines with one simple step...
Sadly, my uncle, was killed when another sergeant (who was also killed) in their troop stood on an S-Mine in mid-Italy in 1944. They would normally have been in armoured cars, but due to the mountainous terrain, they were on foot with pack-mules.
Outstanding video
Everything I've read about the S mines say they were designed to bounce up 3 feet, +/-, to target a soldiers genitals. Very effective physically and mentally. A wounded man would take 3 solders out of action. If killed, only one. Plus, there's a lot of vital areas in the groin. Big veins, arteries, nerve groups, and intestines, which would increase possible infections.
Ah bouncing Betty as we call it. A mean nasty girl
An S-mine would be MY greatest fear! They’re like a claymore, but blow balls in a circular pattern rather a “shotgun”, straight in front covering 45degrees or so. Either can blow you in 1/2. Nast little buggers! Best defense when encountered; fall flat down immediately. Most of the balls will fly over you. Claymores attached to trees about 6 ft up are VERY bad!
No, they are like the US M1 mine. Which is a copy of the S- mine. The German's were designing the Claymore at the end of the war.
Rumor has it that Chuck Norris stepped on one of those mines but his balls were so much bigger that the ball bearings just bounced off.
Looks like the S mine could easily be replicated for ww2 reenactments out of old soup cans and toothpicks! 😁👍
Well done love every video 😊
Thanks JE53SEN!
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Lappland on his homestead just got home to met an S- Mine left by retreating Germans 😢R.I.P
I found a cache of these S-Mines and fuses while detecting battle of Berlin
Schrapnellmine, aka bouncing Betty. When you step on that mine it happens nothing, when you move your leg, it jumps and explodes.
Thank you for this great video. I think the S mine is the meanest personnel mine. The fact that these mines could cause a lot of damage over a greater distance. I also made an episode of it myself on my channel episode 53 I did that with tin cans. It is in Dutch though.
The glass mine was used in Germany late in the war. To this day there a parts of west all forests that roped off because of live glass mines still in the ground.
When setting up a mine you first have to dig a hole big enough for the mine to fit in, once the mine is in place inside the hole with it's fuze armed cover with earth and give a few taps with the back of the shovel to seat said earth cover.
good video!
Thanks Lars337 glad you liked it
a combo of butterfly- and s-mine would be nice
Human beings finding creative ways to destroy themselves
Much respect to my sapper grandfathers. This sapper salutes you
Sapper or EOD quote. Are you scared when dealing with these devices. Answer, no. Either I do it right, or it isn't my problem anymore.
My buddy said dude, you talk about being blown up like it's minor inconvenience. 😅
When i was a kid, there was an older man who regularly went to the ymca to swim, he had a very high toned voice, rumor was he had lost his goolies to a jumping mine in ww2.
Older man ?? 🤔. older thAn what who ?? 🙄
Which ones were effective? The ones that killed
The “Jump-Mine,” aka (in fiction) as the “chemical Death-Adder.”
My |Grand dad said bouncing Bettys, were the mines Third Army infantry feared most.
i think the biggest problems for us today are the glas mines. you cant find them and they should still work. as a soldier in ww2 i would have had most respect from the s mine. dangerous in a radius of 100 meter is very nasty stuff.
same design still in use M16mine . Nasty
Wood, for sure.
Shu-mines only knock people out.
S-mine was probably the most effective. Or later in the war, the booby trapped crooked painting, or motorcycle kickstarter.
I guess its not considered a mine but the Germans used booby traps to. Like behind a crooked picture, you straighten it out and blam! And a fountain pen that when you clicked the pen went boom!
ok okay, agent 007 😂😅🤣
My father told the Germans refused to tell where the landmines in the dunes of ijmuiden were buried. One German officer was put on a chair, a guard next to him with the order to shoot him if he moved. Than they began clearing the minefield.
I have seen some movie clips from Norway, where after the war, german POW, was made to clear their minefields. To make sure they did a good job, they where forced to walk over the cleared field after the job was done. Not a nice thing to do, but quite effective, and understandable. The germans put them there, and after all, they're responsible to clean up their own mess.
All war crimes are "understandable" at one point. Nevertheless these were war crimes. And the "they did it, too" doesn't matter as an excuse.
@@lordvetinari6057 Would it be better to let civilians clear up their own properties after the Germans?
@@sidekickbob7227 Clearing mine fields by German specialists that are POWs on voluntary basis to get home when the work is done is by far something different than forcing POWs and, as a special gruelty on top, risking their health and life. First is covered by the Geneva convention, the latter a war crime. And sorry to say, but a country has to take care of their POWs. Resentiments, revenge, hate, all the bad things that happened are no reason for committing war crimes. It just shows that these people were as bad and morally deteriorated as the people that committed war crimes before. I know, easy to say from the safe distance of 80 years. But also at those times in Denmark and the other former occupied states reasonable people spoke out against these atrocities. But as always, the hating mob got its will. And nowadays, from the distance and a history of peace and friendship, I have no problem with that. Cruelty and crimes were common in this times. Apologies, to accept the truth and the will to forgive are or should be no problem in our times.
@@sidekickbob7227 You really think killing POWs on purpose is justified?
I think the shoe mine might have been pretty effective,but didn't they rig up toys and other everyday items like doors and other such items?
Sadly yes. I found a troll doll rigged to an ied. Still have it
Not for toys in that war, but one booby trap method was tilting a picture frame in a house likely to be occupied by enemy officers. They, being often of upper-class background, would be most inclined to correct it and thereby set off the grenade.
Your thinking of Israel they used toys as mines
@@peterrobbins2862 bull 💩. . I'm a sapper. I know a lot more about mines than u do. A troll doll next to an IED in Somalia. My friend saw a doll near an IED in Iraq. Not Israel. Ur full of it
"Never heard of it before?"
Landmines are way older, the Osman Army used wooden ones during last siege of Vienna in 1680ies.
landmines can be traces bag to the first chinese empire, and maybe even later then this, and you should know if you have made any reaserch that the romans used landmines, not out of gunpowder but dug pits with sharp spines to slow down the enemy, it´s not a new thing, but rather a very old thing
The bouncing Betty’s
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I feel like their ought to be a EU/NATO fund to help out the Libyans. Farmland is important.
There is a special fund in the EU for this called ''Free Field Foundation'' they contribute to countries with this issue including Libya.
@@xtrada0303 That is good to know thankyou!
If first world countries used their soy farms to feed people instead of animals intended for butcher, then there would be virtually no starvation right now
@@fizzmoe9846 Unfortunately famines have occurred in countries with abundant harvests. We already have enough food to eliminate starvation. The problem isn't production its distribution.
Soy is also a complicated issue. I agree that its often used to prop up ecologically terrible practices, but it can also be used sparingly to compliment a diet of bi-products (seed oil press cake, corn stalks etc.) allowing ruminant livestock to convert inedible cellulose rich biomass that would otherwise provide no food, whilst requiring no additional land or resources to produce. The devil is always in the detail.
@@anachronisticon Ruminants primary diet consists of soy. im sure they get fed the cellulose bi products as well, but they primarily eat soy, and we grow 3 fields of soy for every one that we grow for ourselves just to feed them. the problem isnt just distribution because otherwise the US wouldnt have hungry/starving people and children.
environmentally, health-wise, morally, and every other variable points us towards a plant-based future. We can't sustain ourselves otherwise
nice video. but the greedy question at the end and the pinned comment that shows that there is no real interest but only to make money in from of bringing people to comment, made this the first thumb down on the video. sad that good content like this needs greed in it.
And your comment helps the algorithm and grow the channel. If you're that upset just thumbs down and move on.
@@haywoodyoudome i m not consumed by hate, i want to give constructive feedback. maybe some day we will have better youtube videos.
Dude just wants to grow his channel so he can make more money with it and commit more time to it.
@@xtrada0303 this channel looks like its made from a company that has like 50+ youtube channels and runs it as a business.
@@gradeyundery4939 it has that kinda vibe actually yeah
The smile, we call it the m16 mine in us service.