A land mine may cause damage by direct blast effect, by fragments that are thrown by the blast, or by both. Such a device is typically detonated automatically by way of pressure when a target steps on it or drives over it, although other detonation mechanisms are also sometimes used. Archived from the original on April 13, 2020.Swedish FFV 028 anti-tank-mines of the German Bundeswehr (inert versions)Ī land mine is an explosive device concealed under or on the ground and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it. "List-o-Mania: Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love American Movies".
After turning a blind eye to previous acts of resistance (such as a wrecked train) in the hope of preserving good relations with the town, von Keller must now act and takes 10 local hostages, saying they will be shot in a week if the guilty person who threw the grenade is not found. Her brother Paul, who works in the yard, is an active resister and, trying to kill the German commandant Major von Keller with a grenade, instead kills two German soldiers. Louise is however engaged to George, the head of the railway yard, who like many in the town believes that collaboration with the German occupation is the only logical course. Widely regarded as ineffectual, he embarrasses everybody by his panic during an Allied air raid. Albert is an unmarried schoolmaster living with his dominating mother and secretly in love with his neighbour and fellow teacher Louise.