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This training grenade worked exactly the same as the live one, but had an open base.
The fuze held only a small black powder pellet and both fuze and body could be re-used after every throw.
White painted body with a red band.

In it's life (after ww2?) this grenade was renamed into Markierungs-DefensivHandgranate17.
Only the identification markings were changed.

All photos below © W. Schumann.






Photo on the right shows the practice charge which holds a black-powder filling.

The photos below show the "MarkierungsDefensivHandgranate 17"