The Glasmine 43 was an anti-personnel mine used by the Germans during World War II. In order to make the mine less detectable, the entire body is made from glass. Aside from being less detectable, the use of less metal was beneficial because it saved this valuable war resource for other uses. At first, only mechanical igniters were used; with later models, chemical igniters would be used. In 1944 and 1945 11 million mines were produced, at the end of the war 9.7 million were still in the stocks.

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The Schu-mine 42 was a German anti-personnel blast landmine used during the Second World War. It consisted of a simple wooden box with a hinged lid containing a 200 g block of cast TNT. A slot in the lid pressed down on the striker retaining pin, sufficient pressure on the lid caused the pin to move, releasing the striker which triggered the detonator. The mine was cheap to produce, and its wooden body made it more difficult to detect with early metal detectors.