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' (lit. "Stick hand grenade") is a series of World War I and World War II–era German hand grenade designs, also known as the Potato masher (), Doorknocker (), or Jam-pot and stick grenade' (by the British in WWI), The first models were introduced by the Imperial German Army during World War I and the final design was introduced during World War II by the German Wehrmacht.

Key facts

Weapon.image
File:Germany hand grenades, stick models 1915, 1915, 1917, 1917, 1916 - National World War I Museum - Kansas City, MO - DSC07779.JPG
Weapon.image_size
300
Weapon.caption
Stick grenades on display at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri
Weapon.type
Hand grenade
Weapon.origin
German Empire
Weapon.is_explosive
yes
Weapon.service
1915–1945 (Germany)
Weapon.used_by
See
Weapon.design_date
1915–1943
Weapon.production_date
1915–1945
Weapon.variants
See
Weapon.spec_label
Stielhandgranate 15
Weapon.filling
Ammonal
Weapon.detonation
5.5 or 7 seconds timer

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
hand grenade
Country of origin
German Empire
Mass
0.5
Conflict
Vietnam War
Image
Stielhandgranate17.JPG
Length
356
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Commons category
Stielhandgranate
service entry
1915-00-00
service retirement
1945-01-01
inception
1915-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview

13 sections
Contents
  • Background
  • Hairbrush grenade
  • Design
  • History
  • German service
  • Austro-Hungarian service
  • Variants
  • Derivatives
  • Users
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

' (lit. "Stick hand grenade") is a series of World War I and World War II–era German hand grenade designs, also known as the Potato masher (), Doorknocker (), or Jam-pot and stick grenade' (by the British in WWI), The first models were introduced by the Imperial German Army during World War I and the final design was introduced during World War II by the German Wehrmacht.

==Background==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stielhandgranate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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