From his house wrote a report in which he asked for 100 swords, 600 guns, mine throwers and bombs.

The Poles were more successful; using mine throwers they took the secret police building, freed about twenty prisoners and captured secret documents.

1973- Mine Thrower shown at Madrid, Spain during the International Art Exhibition connected with the Olympic Games.

Kesselring responded by authorising the "massive employment of artillery, grenade and mine throwers, armoured cars, flamethrowers and other technical combat equipment" against the partisans.

Today, there is still a military presence: the Swiss army maintains a firing range for tanks; the army "even uses mine throwers to target the glacier on the upper flanks of the 3,000-metre high Hausstock Mountain."