Topfmine
Sign in to saveThe Topfmines (German: "pot mines") were a series of German circular minimum metal anti-tank blast mines that entered service with the German army in 1944, during the Second World War.
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- Subclass of
- anti-tank mine
- Country of origin
- Nazi Germany
- Image
- German Topfmine B.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Topfmine A
- Topfmine B
- Topfmine C
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The Topfmines (German: "pot mines") were a series of German circular minimum metal anti-tank blast mines that entered service with the German army in 1944, during the Second World War.
The mines used a case made of compressed wood-pulp, cardboard and tar along with glass plugs and components designed to be undetectable by Allied mine detectors. Often the only metallic part of the mines was the detonator.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Topfmine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.