German WW2 "Minen" Metal Mine Field Sign

German WW2  "Minen"  Metal Mine Field Sign 

• size 35cm across the top, 27x27cms each side 
• 2mm thick steel
• 3 holes to attach to wire fence 
• Painted bright yellow 
• Minen with skull on front 
• Dated 1940 with maker BYF

These Yellow MInen metal markers were used by the German Army, Waffen SS and luftwaffe soldiers during WW2 to mark there own mine fields. Once the German Forces had finished the Blitzkreig in 1939-1940 they layed down 1000's of mine field to defend againt counter attacks. There Germans also used mine field in Normandy to defend against the allied landing on the beaches in Operation Overlord June 1944