The Terrifyingly Effective Nazi De-Bollocker

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Blackadder Goes Forth: 'Captain, what should I do if I *do* tread on a mine?' 'Well, George, standard procedure is to leap two hundred feet in the air and spread yourself over a wide area.'

[@prophetofthesingularity]

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[@Draugonauv]

What is this from? It sounds so familiar lol

[@robertwalker-smith2739]

@@Draugonauv , Blackadder Goes Forth.

[@DogWalkerBill]

My Father was in the US infantry during WWII and served in the Pacific Theater. He told that during training, his battalion was sitting on bleachers at an outdoor athletic field while an "Expert" showed them how to safely disarm a Bouncing Betty Mine with nothing but a bayonet. The "Expert" was wearing his combat helmet with the chin strap loose, as most GI's did. He knelt down in front of the mine, did something with the bayonet and the Bouncing Betty Mine popped up, went under his helmet, exploded and scattered his brains all over the athletic field! My Father said, after that "demonstration,' during the whole war, not one man in his battalion ever tried to disarm a Bouncing Betty Mine. They always called for an "Expert."

[@GoHomeKamala]

Apparently it was a production flaw he was talking about in the video. It was his first one.

[@carddamom188]

Now that was a demo...

[@maddg7471]

Detonates at testicle height. Could they have made it any more inhumane?

[@Jodonho]

Proof that it was invented by an ex wife.

[@TheIndulged1]

That's what happens when feminist's get violent!!!.

[@edi9892]

I think the real reason was to hit either the leg artery or the one in your stomach (with the added bonus of severe wound inflammation)

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[@krzysztofczarnecki8238]

Another reason for glass mines was that glass is made literally out of sand, and some metal that would have been used for the casing can be saved for other purposes, making the mine cheaper.

[@dx1450]

Plus the idea of razor sharp glass flying in all directions is not pleasant.

[@ashpalmaxe]

The variant glass mine; blowing shards of glass into your groin. That's cold blooded man!

[@Kluneberg]

Not to mention being made of glass makes it more likely to not malfunction over the years(a metal one would rust and malfunction). Walking around the German wilderness doesn't sound that appealing anymore. I've seen videos of people hunting artefacts with metal detectors in Germany stumble upon a rusted broken metal one, I'd be scared shitless of the chance of finding one that is still working.

[@drewdurant3835]

Ashley Palmer I would probably just finish the job myself if one of those blew my nuts off.

[@captainhakob814]

They also make a plastic mine. It's banned from use in war like mustard gas. The plastic pieces float around in your body till they get stuck in your heart and you die a couple days later. They call them the walking dead. Being plastic makes it impossible for a doctor to heal you thus being inhuman

[@ashpalmaxe]

I think the pinnacle of cruelty for armaments is "salted" nuclear bombs.

[@JoshSweetvale]

Nazis.

[@andrebartels1690]

I have seen a glass mine on a mine sweepers display at a fair, here in Germany. He told me, they were designed to withstand the corrosive effects of sea water. Their designated purpose was to block beaches. After portable electronic metal probes were developed during the war, their design was reviewed and freed from all metal. Thus, they are nearly undetectable and still functional today.

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[@josephroberts7597]

S mines were designed to injure not kill. One injured soldier will take not only him out of the fight but also those requires to take care of them.

[@Gaehhn]

Best to critically injure the enemy soldier as the enemy nation has to spend resources on his recovery but he is either left crippled or dies in the (field) hospital thus demoralizing the enemy even further.

[@Schwarzvogel1]

@@Gaehhn If he is going to die anyway, what difference does it make whether he dies on the battlefield or in a hospital somewhere? Ever hear of a simple concept called triage--all militaries use it, especially when resources are scarce. No fighting force, whether an organized military or a band of guerillas or bandits, will waste resources trying to save someone who is clearly bound for the pearly gates within a day. The S mines were designed to injure rather than kill outright because it takes less explosives and shrapnel to blow a man's foot, legs, or bollocks off than it does to blast him into small chunks. And a soldier missing a leg probably will die anyway without prompt medical attention, and he certainly isn't going to be fighting any more.

[@mammutMK2]

Don't kill him, don't injure him so much that it is clear that he will die. Just destroy his combat capability for this fight, ideal for ever. So someone needs to take care of him, ant that guy is a good target. But even if he is just minor wounded, he will need some care. And every soldier that is screaming in pain is defenetly not raising you motivation, a dead soldier can't scream and doesn't need any attention. That's why mines are so terrible, they were not made to kill, just injure, bind recourses and personal,and demotivation

[@cnocspeireag]

I always understood that this was why the larger powers were happy to observe the Geneva Convention regarding non-expanding bullets, which are more likely to wound than kill.

[@tomsmith3045]

@@cnocspeireag It's simpler than that. Major powers don't want expanding bullets because they have much less armor defeating capability. Military bullets need to go through soft armor, car doors, walls, etc.. Hunting bullets not so much.

[@Blondie-Actual]

I love how passively aggressive he is when referring to the French. A true Brit.

[@RonaldMcPaul]

Perfect comment.

[@leo-hao]

A French offense. Apparently that's a thing...

[@ObediahPolkinghornIII-cz5io]

And an ignorant Brit at that...

[@coyoteannabis1192]

Are they hiring down at the Department of Redundancy Department?

[@apgmk1970]

I bet he's an Englishman... At least his arrogance and douchbaggery in this case hints to it.

[@cerhart7172]

The remains of S-mines are still being found along the Atlantic Wall as well, including the Normandy beaches, although those that are in the sand are essentially rusted out and inert. Cross reference WWII History Hunter channel, among other metal detecting channels here.

[@idoalittletrolling4867]

French: T h e S i l e n t S o l d e r Americans: Bouncing Betty British: De-Bollockers Germans: Explosive Pellet Device Type-A-01 Created by The Generic German Name Company Version 00091

[@arturczerwinski2616]

Wrong. I'd say they named it Metallkugelnexplosionswaffe zur Demoralisierung des Feindes.

[@sMASHsound]

about right

[@dyveira]

That's a fairly standard Britishism. Commonwealth armies tend to have pretty creative names for things.

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[@nicke1903]

Ireland: Car Bombs

[@TheCaptainbeefylog]

"Toe Poppers" were used a bit too as an ad-hoc AP device on both sides. Troops often made them when setting up a defensive position. Basically a rifle cartridge set on a small board with a nail pointing at the primer. Stand on it and lose some toes. A modern version involves a shotgun shell. It can also be varied to mount on a tree or similar object with the shell held in a piece of tubing such as PVC and a mouse trap and fishing line for the trigger and triker. Limited range and effect but excellent for creating confusion.

[@markscruggs8346]

Wow, I never thought that the strategy in Call of Duty of just going prone after setting off a bouncing Betty was a real military survival technique.

[@nicholasming5976]

Truth is stranger than fiction

[@brendonleenheer]

"... a French offensive - apparently that's a thing..."

[@Rick1984FL]

Brendon Leenheer shocker

[@TheThingInMySink]

How about that one French offensive in Rocroi in the year 1643 where they smashed the formidable Spanish tercios into bits? Or how about that one time a certain Little Corporal took over most of central Europe, totally humiliating their militaries, until finally being defeated by the combined might of several European powers? Or how about the numerous French offensives during the First World War? Or how about we forget the offensives, and talk about how those men on the beaches of Dunkirk would have never made it home, unless the French covering their retreat fought like hell, and well they did.

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@@RickSanchez-gg1to such a closed minded ignoramus

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[@theofficialsikris]

@@TheThingInMySink Or how about that time an army of 20,000 French soldiers including heavily armored Knights lost spectacularly to a retreating English army numbering between 7000-10,000 and comprised mostly of Archers.

[@exJacktar]

My dad fought in Italy, Holland and Germany with the Canadian Army. He told me about an anti-personnel mine that our side used which also was called the de-bollocker by our guys, as well. It consisted of a metal tube that had a .303 rifle gas cartridge and steel dart on top of that. They were buried behind German lines on trails used by German troops. When a stepped on by a person, the gas cartridge was fired which shot the dart upwards, through the foot, up the leg (shattering the bone as it went) and frequently removed the bollocks too boot. Dad said they came across more than one guy who'd stepped on one and lay there until they died from the wounds. Both sides were scared of these things as they didn't descriminate between friend or foe, military or civilian.

[@julemandenudengaver4580]

in Denmark the last landmines where removed in 2012 but ~50000 mines are expected at sea back from both WW1 and WW2

[@Hamsterdam91]

In Germany about 5000 aircraft bombs from mainly WW2 are found and defused every year. I could not find any numbers for all of Germany, but in the state North-Rhine-Westphalia alone they found 132 mines, over 5500 grenades of all kinds (throwing grenades, for grenade launchers, for bazookas and more), and over 1000 other explosives just in 2017

[@whuzzzup]

There is also a forest in Germany that is forbidden to enter, because there are still undetectable glass mines there.

[@striker1553]

@@whuzzzup that forest is the Hurtgen Forest. Look that battle up if you don't want to sleep well.

[@tommyodonovan3883]

Something's rotten in the State on Denmark.

[@tommyodonovan3883]

@@Hamsterdam91 There were no Wal-Mart's in WW2 Germany....only Targets.

[@TheKlabim]

3:15 is the last evidence one needs to be sure that Simon is a brit!

[@psk1w1]

As if the accent did not already make it obvious.... Brits do have a long history of French armies being on the run. Apart from Hastings. And Bordeaux at the end of the 100 Years' War.

[@oddballskull1941]

He did say “last evidence” for a reason.

[@psk1w1]

@@oddballskull1941 Perhaps, but if someone put their mind to it, I'm sure they could find further evidence.

[@fredtuturo1793]

@@psk1w1 and what about the 300000 english soldiers being on the run crossing the channel at Dunkirk, while french soldiers fought and died to protect their retreat but obviously this battle is better to be forgotten by the brits

[@martinjarvie4925]

@@fredtuturo1793 How many Frech soldiers were taken off along with Brits? how many Brits didn't make it off the beaches along with the French fighting the rear hiard action ? and oh yes who's country was it in the first place ? Get your facts right and dont dishonor those all those brave people

[@jblob5764]

"A french offensive... Apparently thats a thing" Freaking hilarious

[@B20C0]

I've heard the myth about mines triggering if you step off was planted deliberately to (ironically) save soldiers' lives. Reason being that when the mine detonates with a foot on top it can't launch upwards. So while one soldier gets severely wounded or killed, if you are lucky the rest of the soldiers won't.

[@justicar5]

mines are designed to maim: a dead soldier can be left until after the battle, a maimed one needs stretcher bearers, hospital care and feeding using up resources and his screams before the bearers get to him damage morale.

[@augustusmcgovern6084]

Horrific. I'd heard of the mine as the "bouncing betty". Grass seed. SMH

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Someone must’ve had a really bad relationship with a woman named “Betty”...

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[@guyh.4553]

As a prior Combat Engineer, mines are horrible things. I know as an officer I had to be an expert of all of them. Like you said, a LOT of mine designs still carry on to today. Bouncing Bettie's are some of the worst. Especially when time delayed fuses were/are employed

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I know of a different Bouncing Betty that will also take your rocks off.

[@wa1ufo]

Ha Ha Ha!!!!!!!

[@jakobgrimminger]

Not just North Africa and Eastern Europe. We found a minefield of 80 "S" mines in a wood near Aachen in Western Germany. We lost count eventually but there were 80+ mines in the wood back in the mid 90's

[@HeilRay]

French offensive *Presses X to doubt.*

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[@Dukeofvampires1]

unlike shitty nolan movie depict, french military stopped germans for quite some time, lost more than 50000 soldiers and gave brits a chance to save their asses.

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[@fuckinantipope5511]

@@Dukeofvampires1 they still got fucked in six weeks because their generals where old ass idiots who didn't understand the concept of a "mobile war" because they still where stuck in WW1

[@quentintin1]

another point in the D in "D-day" just being a placeholder/meaning just "day" is in the french variance of the term we encounter the same construction "jour-J" this little naming thing is quite good as it simplifies organisation, ocult the timeframe of the event to the enemy and even it's scope as it makes no reference to the place or even what the event will be so without getting precise plans of what this fabled D-day will be, it'll make the enemy preparation to counter such event more difficult

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Gotta love the allied sense of humour 🤣

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7:50 I started playing crossout a year ago because of your videos XD It is adorable to watch Simon play crossout. Your cabin has zero armor sir. lol

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

The Glasmine works on completely different principles to the S-mine, so it shouldn’t be describe as a ‘development’ of the S-mine

[@ricey23]

I could tell this was a Karl Smallwood written episode it had a Fact Fiend feel to it. I love how this channel collaborates with different authors.

[@carbon1255]

It has genitals in it.

[@rodiculous9464]

"Injury from the mine could be avoided by immediately laying down" Who knew "assdestroyer420" was such a well versed military historian every time he dodged my proximity mines in cod

[@sigma1848]

As I can tell from my service with the German army engineer corps, the successor system of the 'Bouncing Betty' was still in use in 1988, when we prepared anti-tank obstacles near the Czech border. The 'Schützenabwehrverlegemine DM31' was put out of service from 1995 on, when Germany joined the Ottawa Convention. 3./220L

[@paranoiarpincess]

When I was younger, I thought the "D" in D-DAY was for "dooms-" like as in"Doomsday".

[@aylemao6181]

I always thought it was THE day, shortened to D day. As in "the" day the shit comes down.

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@@aylemao6181 Shit I never though of that.

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[@kristophermahaffey9765]

Same

[@tommyodonovan3883]

For Jerry and Frittzy.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

One of the most effective and dangerous weapon ever created. If I remember it correctly, my grandpa was almost crippled in the Philippines because of it during WW2, I'm glad he was among those who survived the war without a scratch despite being at the frontlines

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Real MVP here

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Thx

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MVP

[@charlesgmcd]

Love the casual digs at France by the Englishman.

[@garrysmith9515]

When Simon called it the "Bouncing B!+ch," I choked on my coffee laughing. Thank you, Simon. That was hot. Worth it. XD

[@clivewsm]

Unlike most anti-personnel mines, which usually just maim 1 person, this was designed to hit many, acting more like a grenade. It also had trip wires, so you didn't have to step on it. Activation of the mine ignited the propellant charge, which shot the main mine up. This was attached to a 1.2 metre cable, which triggered the main charge, sending the bearings out in all directions from this height.

[@logandeboer1009]

My great grandfather was an anti aircraft gunner in North Africa in WW2. His squadmates were digging an emplacement, and an S mine killed 6 of the men.

[@AriMalatesta]

I mean, I don't "like it" but, well you know what I mean. Thanks for sharing the story.

[@fortawesome1974]

We still use a version of the S Mine today!! In Australia we call them jumping jacks!! They new ones can also be set up with a trip wire as well so you can either step on it or trip it. Mines are technically illegal in the Geneva convention but they can be used if your enemy uses them!! But they have to be in marked fields, mapped and fenced off with warning signs!!

[@wolf310ii]

The S-Mine 35 could also set up with tripwires, and with 3 fuses. Mines are illegal in the Ottawa convention and still are if the enemy use them, exept for the US, they do whatever they want and didnt sign the convention anyway.

[@bunnyluver2176]

Lol I thought he said “land lines” instead of “land mines” at first and wondered what could be so terrifying about land lines except how Spectrum forces you to bundle them into every plan they have 😂

[@reapthereap]

Another thing about D day that was not mentioned was the military code breakers. A lot of historians believe that the D in D day was a way to confuse the German Code Breakers from finding out the plans of the Brits, Canada, and the US storming the beach.

[@collinhennessy1521]

D-Day and H-Hour were both terms that came into use by the US during the First World War. I'm not sure if the US military was the one to first use it, I think it's doubtful they did

[@housekilla457]

“The exact lethal range of the mine isn’t clear.” Hey ordnance lab, I’ve got an idea for your next video.

[@isaacschmitt4803]

Hi, former Navy guy here. Its not just for combat operations. Any official operation planned ahead of time uses D-Day and H-Hour. Speaking of, if you want a really interesting and action packed topic, you should do a video on UNREP, or how the Navy gets their mail and groceries while underway. At the least look up a video of one. They're truly insane undertakings. Think Fury Road but on the ocean.

[@jermelclark7867]

There were a lot of mines. A lot of my buddies lost their nuts. It was crazy.

[@LavenderSystem69]

D-Day and H-Hour are literally just another way of writing "Day 0" or "Hour 0" on a document, denoting the start of an operation (not even necessarily a combat campaign, either... it can be used to denote the start of something as mundane as a long series of training exercises). Anything prior is notated D-Day -X, where 'X' is the number of days remaining prior to D-Day, and anything after is notated D-Day +X, where X has the same meaning in the opposite direction

[@MosoKaiser]

I wouldn't be surprised if the mines most of the time maiming instead of killing wasn't due to shoddy quality from hasty production, but a very deliberate design choice. A wounded soldier is a far greater hindrance to his squad than a dead one.

[@davidmacko983]

Also a heavy injured soldier will not be coming back to combat any time soon and if the squad attempts to save them they have to waste time

[@KSeigY]

As I've been told: "a dead soldier takes one out of the fight. An injured soldier takes at least two out of it: the injured and the one(s) treating him."

[@tommyodonovan3883]

A severely wounded enemy soldier is worth 10 DEAD ones. It can destroy moral if the other men see their friends with their balls blown off NPI.

[@tbxvividos]

ok that "french offensive" jab was the funniest thing i've heard on this channel

[@irgendwer420]

Even in Germany.. Hürtgenwald.. You're not allowed to go in the woods in some spaces because of mines... Sorry for my bad English... Greatings from Germany.. 🙏🤣🤣

[@linabasilisk1955]

Your English isn't bad at all. It's just as good as many native speakers. There are one or two errors, but English is one of the harder languages to learn. Anyone learning a second (or third etc.) language has my respect. My cradle tongue is English, though I have studied French and a bit of Latin. I know words and phrases in several other languages, mainly enough to get into trouble.

[@Matt-bu3ml]

No one knick-naming the S- mine a "ball buster" seems like a real missed opportunity.

[@Big_Loo]

For the lesser rest of the world, 460 feet is just over 140 meters.

[@TheIndulged1]

Someone has been thankful of size conversion rates, all but the ladies appreciate the effort.

[@kingbela88]

BigLoo thank you!

[@james8449100]

Simon clearly pro bexit

[@Tfin]

@Horatio Moonraker It isn't "metric" based on the length unit. Also, "soccer" and "Aluminum" came first from the mouths, or hands, of British people.

[@tommyodonovan3883]

Imagine....Every one of them volunteered....For the 1st two yrs of WW1 anyways...Then the mothers didn't want to give up their last sons to the meat grinder, so a draft was implemented.

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

Anti tank mines are still widely held. It’s only anti-personnel mines that were banned by the 1997 Ottawa Convention. A number of major producers didn’t sign, including Russia, China and the US.

[@ag135i]

I love your commentary Simon some brits like you are really good at explaining things.

[@tommyodonovan3883]

Like inbreeding.

[@psk1w1]

@@tommyodonovan3883 You have posted this comment before. It seems important to you. But I don't see evidence that the Brits do inbreed significantly. Some cultures do, like cousin marriage among Pakistanis. But Brits don't. So why do you need to keep posting this sort of comment?

[@markbeyea4063]

The US used, and still posses, a near exact copy of the S mine. It is the M-16 (with M16A1 and M16A2 variants) antipersonnel mine. I learned how to install and remove them as a US Army engineer in the 1980's. As of my last military tour in 2010 we were still training with, and employing, the M18 Claymore antipersonnel mine as standard equipment. While I was in Afghanistan, in 2009-2010, I was an engineer with US Army forces. We were engaged in numerous contracted construction projects. The first step in many projects was actually to de-mine (remove mines) the area designated for construction. If I remember correctly, the average price for demining was around $12/square meter. Surprisingly, there was not shortage of local contractors willing to undertake this dangerous task. I saw numerous Afghans who had lost limbs, usually legs, to the millions of mines left behind by Soviet forces. In addition, the US has systems of mines that can be delivered by aircraft and artillery. These are referred to as scatterable mines. Many of these have built-in self destruct features that allow them to automatically remove themselves after a predetermined period. As with anything made by man, this feature is never 100% effective. In Iraq, in 1991, I was in a passenger in a vehicle that ran over and detonated a small anti-personnel scatterable mine. Thank you, US Air Force. The damage to the vehicle was minor and none of the occupants were injured. Fortunately the blast did not set off the significant quantity of demolition explosives we were transporting.

[@jahendrix1543]

Ouch “French offensive, apparently that’s a thing” lol

[@TJH1]

I laughed so hard!

[@ryanaegis3544]

That line alone earned my subscription.

[@joergmaass]

It is in line with "British Car", "British Food" and "German Humour"...

[@densealloy]

If I remember mine training at the school of infantry (in 1991 so just a few years ago), there were even triggers with a tilt rod. What that means, is that in tall grass a 1/2 meter rod would be the trigger when it was moved a set number of degrees in any direction. I also remember a foot switch that was about 10 cm vertical rod and 4 more at 20 degrees....\|/ like this sort of. So even just bumping into it caused a trigger. Of course we were being trained on then current mines and I feel confident in saying these were later developments and not necessarily WW2 era.

[@alaric49]

D Day means nothing. The official name of the operation was Operation Overlord.

[@lloydpergande3286]

Kazimierz Wróbel d day was like battle of the bulge and such. Your correct i believe. My grandpa was part of SHAEF and the air force.

[@Kanbei11]

Operation Neptune was the official name for the landings on D-day which was part of Overlord. It would not be wrong to say that Paris was captured during Overlord

[@Tommy-5684]

at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester they have a deactivated S-Mine that was tuned in to a camp stove and a deactivated T-mine tuned in to a teapot

[@alexandrehuot7622]

At first, I heard "the D&D day". Now I want to play. Dang it.

[@PitFriend1]

At 2:08 that isn’t a picture of an S-mine. That’s a picture of a Schu-mine or “shoe” mine. It’s basically just a little wooden box filled with TNT. The allies hated them both because the wooden splinters were hard to detect and often got infected but also because magnetic mine detectors couldn’t find the things as they have very little metal in them.

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[@BeaglefreilaufKalkar]

In some parts of Germany there are still forbidden zones because of mines. Nationalpark Hainich for instance I am told. In Kroatia large parts are mined too, they are still there. What was once very small mountain farms and orchards are now forrests, overgrown and quite wonderfull nature, with loads of wildlife, no hunters, but warnings with skulls and bones. These areas will be no-go for a very long time.

[@MyydrionGaming]

3:15 that stab at France tho.

[@sizzlechestmcmurphy4365]

If I recall correctly, Deadliest Warrior covered the "bouncing betty" landmine in their SS vs VIetcong episode. Definitely worth a watch.

[@yaboyblacklist2431]

yes they did. and it was every bit as nasty as they described

[@Schwarzvogel1]

Good job on addressing the myth that the S-mine would only detonate when the trigger is released. That trope has even been shown in some otherwise realistic films about WWII. In reality, the booster charge was strong enough to send it through your foot even if you stood still. As for the Glasmine, that diabolical device was manufactured largely for two reasons: 1. The Germans wanted to make a mine that was even harder to detect 2. The Germans were also starting to run low on resources, and glass (and wood) are easier to obtain than metal, which is needed for other things like tanks. Making a mine that would produce fragments undetectable under x-ray wasn't a primary goal of that design. I also see _a lot_ of people claiming "it's better/more efficient/more demoralizing to wound enemy soldiers rather than kill them outright. Wounded soldiers have to be evacuated, which takes more men out of the fight." I'm guessing that a lot of these folks never served in any military nor are they well-versed in any military history that isn't in video format. They also clearly have not heard of triage, either. In _most_ cases, it's better to kill enemy combatants than wound them. Any fighting force whose resouces are so strained that they cannot easily care for all of their wounded is simply going to focus on those who are most likely to recover to fight again, which means that your side will end up having to deal with those men once more. I have not heard of _any_ nation or faction that was crippled by the cost of caring for its wounded. I have heard, however, of factions being crippled by attrition due to combat deaths and permanently invalidated wounded. Moreover, a dead soldier is actually worse for morale--and for his side--than a wounded one. A dead soldier is a net loss in terms of the resources spent to train and equip him. He also takes all of his combat experience and knowledge with him to the grave. Keep killing enough of the other side's best men, and eventually, they'll have nothing but underage boys, old men, and women to throw at you. By contrast, a wounded soldier may be able to return to combat. That fellow you wound today may return in a month to kill a few of your friends. If he is no longer fit for combat duties, he can play a vital role training new recruits, performing various noncombatant duties (e.g. administrative, transportation, or culinary work) that employ the vast majority of any nation's servicemen, or, if he's particularly dashing and heroic, be used to raise morale on the home front by contributing to propaganda. For those of you who believe the "wounded soldiers are worse than dead ones" nonsense, ask yourselves this: if wounds, including horrible wounds, were universally worse for morale, then why have there been numerous cases throughout history of soldiers shooting themselves through the foot or leg to avoid having to go into combat? Some even tried to contract veneral diseases to avoid being sent into battle. Was it because... these men feared being *killed*, and would rather be lame than dead? Why have there been numerous cases of officers being able to force their men to advance by threatening them with pistols? After all, a bullet to the back of the head is a much more painless way to go than having your guts splattered all over the place by an exploding shell. Was it because... these men were afraid of dying, but they realized that whilst the enemy **_might_** kill them, their captain *certainly would* if they didn't follow orders? And if wounded men cost more resources than dead men, then why does _every_ military in the world heavily disapprove of and forbid the idea of mercy-killing its own wounded? If any of you who believe this old canard are unfortunate enough to be sent into combat, I hope that you don't think you are doing anyone a favor by putting a round through the head of a critically wounded fellow soldier *or* enemy combatant. In both cases, you'll end up with a court-martial and a _long_ jail sentence for murder. Finally, ask anyone who has served about their tactics for handling the wounded in a firefight. Soldiers and Marines will not stop shooting just to carry their wounded buddy out of the combat zone. Rather, they will keep firing until the threat is neutralized, _then_ administer aid to the wounded. Thus, it really doesn't impede the unit's effectiveness any differently if you kill or wound one of its members. In fact, seeing your best friend get his head blown off is _more_ demoralizing than seeing him have his arm shattered by a bullet, because in the former case, your friend is gone for good. In the latter, you'll be able to enjoy his company still, even if he does end up losing the arm.

[@bruhbean2659]

Nice essay

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

Well said. These myths are heavily borrowed from dubious sources thT were not even referring to land mines in the first place.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

I'm sick of boomers claiming 5.56 NATO was "made to wound"

[@ahobimo732]

I'm glad you shared this. I had formerly heard the "better to wound than kill" argument and found it convincing. I have no military or armed combat experience of any kind, and it isn't a subject I've ever studied, so I never thought of any of the counter points that you mentioned. Your mini-essay on the topic was very enlightening for me. Thank you for making me slightly less ignorant. 🙂 By the way, do you have any personal combat experience yourself? It sounds as if you do. I'm just curious.

[@Lawrence330]

That's a very modern viewpoint. Warfare today, at least for western soldiers, is far less gritty and gruesome than in the tire periods covered in the video. It's still hell, as General Sherman would say, but the challenges and strategies are worlds different.

[@doncarlton4858]

So effective in fact that it was reversed engineered by the US and used at least up into the Gulf War. We still called them "Bouncing Betty". Last I knew, (2003) the USA still uses landmines because Russia, China and N. Korea still use landmines.

[@TheOwlofAthens]

I meet WW2 veterans and they told me about this mine and what it could do to a man, and by god I felt so sorry for them.

[@Yupppi]

I'm watching 4 years later it seems, but I was kinda excited to learn if D-day actually had a meaning when Simon promised to explain it. Yet it was in the end just the one everyone knows, D-day, H-hour, S-second etc.

[@dr.ofdubiouswisdom4189]

" Mein Meatballs! " Explosive device. Terrifying concept & indiscriminate killer - to this day.

[@AdamHarrisonEros]

I have a question for a possible future episode. How is gunpowder made at an industrial scale without plants blowing up from sparks, heat, compression, or any of the other conditions you can get in an industrial environment?

[@Ojthemighty]

"French offensive. Apparently thats a thing." You win the internet today sir

[@u.v.s.5583]

To the first Betty and right back.

[@davidmicheletti6292]

My uncles job during the D day invasion was to dig up mines along the beaches. He was wounded twice at the beach then after weeks of recovery he returned to action only to be wounded again by mines. This time it took him months to recover before he returned to the battle. His final wound happened during the battle of the bulge and he survived when six others died. At last his wounds took him out of the war. My memories of my youth were him going to the hospital to have steel balls removed from his body. He was the first of the children to die.

[@KX36]

I always assumed A, B and C days were already taken.

[@johndominicamabile]

The use of D-day in military planning goes like this. D-2 we check weather. D-1 we do final reconnaissance. D-Day we land on the beach. D+1 supplies arrive, front line has moved 5 km. D+2 we start working on an airfield, front has moved 10 km. D+3 the first planes land, etc, front 15 km from beach. We have a port up and running at D+30. The supplies for the theater are based on D+180. By using this for planning it allows people to adjust, lets say we are not advancing forward by D+3. Well we shouldn't start building the airfield because we're probably still in artillery range of the bad guys. So the general would put out something like 'hey guys, plan is screwed up, we're basically still at D+1 even though the calender says D+3.'

[@bigchieffuzzybeardofgulfci7022]

Clearly you didn't earn that scorpion

[@TheWizardOfTheFens]

My grandfather William (Bill) Pettengale joined the 1st East Surrey regiment as a professional soldier in 1931. During the battle for Randazzo in Sicily and the house to house fighting that took place there, he was wounded by a ‘Bouncing Betty’. That put paid to his career and his cross country running. It also meant that my father was his one and only child…..

[@user-xz9fw6lk3p]

Then It's official, Call of Duty didn't actually make these mines bounce higher in their games they just used 3 feet tall soldiers!

Child soldiers Accurate

[@mandolinic]

During the early 1970s there was a British TV drama called "Family at War". In one episode, some British soldiers receive training on this very mine.

[@justandy333]

One of the few videos where the bonus material is more interesting than the main content.

[@timvanbriesen8916]

One variation of the meaning of D in D Day I didn't hear you mention was Day... Silly as that sounds, as in classical text one mite say "Verily Verily I say unto you..." placing more emphasis on the word or in this case the date by saying "Day Day." But to be honest your explanation of "D Day" being a variable in a plan makes a lot more sense.

[@sirsawtooth4044]

*WARNING TO PEOPLE INTERESTED IN CROSSOUT* Do your research before installing this game. Though I have enjoyed it there are a LOT of issues with the Launcher (Security Wise) and economy over all. Not to dump on Crossout but the current top tier items are around 600 USD right now. The economy is player/algorithm based, and the devs main focus is DLC (usually weekly and 30 USD each) Or promoting the game via KZbinrs. Its very EA-esk and as much as I love the games premise, people should know what their getting into. TLDR; THIS GAME IS NOT PAY TO WIN, BUT SURE THE HELL IS PAY TO PLAY UNLESS YOU WANT A SECOND JOB

[@etonbachs4226]

People should know what THEY'RE getting into.

[@zolodio]

What security issues are you referring to? There is nothing wrong with their economy. Prices are set by the individual players working in collective in a supply/demand economy, just as it should be. You can watch the prices fluctuate as supply rises and falls, and you can even get items for half their price if people are willing to sell at your asking price. Huge items like a $600 top tier item is set at that price by the one or two people who have achieve attaining it and are wanting to sell it. That is what they think it's worth, and clearly it's not worth that to you so don't buy it -- that doesn't make their economy bad. You can earn/build anything in the game without paying for it... that's the original point of the game. Craft, ride, destroy, repeat. They just include the buy it now option for the lazy/impatient who want the instant gratification of purchasing those items and are willing to pay more than it's worth to have it now.

[@julianleischner3700]

If it's mostly the shrapnel that kills and not necessarily the explosion itself, I wonder if some way to keep it in the ground would have been the most effective way of minimizing injuries and damage from the mine. Obviously if you stand on it and it explodes right below you you'd still probably lose your legs but maybe the weight of a person would be enough to counter the mine's lift and keep the shrapnel in the ground?

[@terryts2]

Too many bad memories from playing World at War...

[@ricshmitz83]

"Release the dogs"! Recently found out that the voice of Kiefer Sutherland was included heavily in that game. All those years of game playing with Jack Bauer and I never knew 🤣

[@Manuelslayor]

Glass was concieved as a mine metreial because it was made from a very easy to procure material (sand). The other "benefits" are joust aded bonus.

[@wolf310ii]

Other than the Video implies, the Glasmine 43 has nothing to do with the S-Mine 35/44. The Glasmine was "invented" because it was hard to detect, not because it was easy to produce. The wooden S-Mine 42 or the Stockmine M43 (made out of concrete and metal scrap) are much easier to produce.

[@rwg5167]

"French offensive, apparently that's a thing..."😂😂😂😂😂

[@robinderoos1166]

@Gary Daniel the french required Britain and the USA to save them in both wars... Good fighting by individual soldiers doesn't help if high command are incompetent retards... That goes for germany too by the way.

[@fermitupoupon1754]

Ask Napoleon Bonaparte about successful French offensives. Or a rather large part of Africa for that matter.

[@TJH1]

Bloody hilarious! I did an actual double-take and then laughed.

[@andrewevatt3616]

D Day means nothing more than designated day. As you mentioned , the term was used as a place holder until an actual date was chosen or disclosed.

[@michaeldesanta977]

This video popped up in my suggestions today after I checked-out *_Mein Kampf_* from the library. I swear Google is somehow spying on me in real life.

[@mikearmbruster2171]

You could find me in kamph ?

[@michaeldesanta977]

@@mikearmbruster2171 My local library has two copies: One in the original German, and one in English.

[@sussekind9717]

In the Pacific theater during World War II, troop movement planners would always use the term D-day for the day that they landed. Be it saipan, Iwo Jima or any other island they invaded they always used the term D-day .

[@salvino6699]

D-Day, the first day back at work after a 2 weeks holiday

[@pweter351]

Horrific

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

Who the heck gets two weeks off?!

[@ctakitimu]

Simon, you must have played Crossout for ever to get access to that gear, or paid money...or been given access as they sponsored your fine, fine video. It takes absolutely ages to build up that kind of gear! Great video btw, I found myself subconsciously crossing my legs. Why is that? :)

[@rileyen4608]

D-day literally means Day day

[@moabt.frican7163]

DAY BOWBOW

[@smooothest]

The Bouncing Betty still haunts my memories. CoD WaW was a difficult time in my life.

[@tommyodonovan3883]

Remind me of the ex

[@moviesignsol]

5:58 Myth of stepping off of a landmine. I assumed that was true from some old WW2 movies on AMC that I saw.

[@carbon1255]

There was one or two mines that did that, but they are rare.

[@SopwithAviator]

Outstanding presentation. How about doing one about the German methods of camouflage. Example: I was stationed at a base in Germany called Fliegerhorst, near Hanau that was a German pilot training base during WW2 that would be flooded to look like a lake before bomber runs, you could see the bomb craters filled with water reflecting light when you would fly around the field. Also, it was rumored that there was an underground hanger that contained aircraft and was booby trapped and flooded to prevent allies from accessing it. Maybe some ideas for future shows. Thanks!

[@politicaltempist8132]

This man moves his hands and head more then his lips