The 2015 Danish-German film, LAND OF MINE (UNDER SANDET), fictionalises this little known chapter from history when these German boys - and boys they were, as some were as young as 15 - were essentially used as slave labour by the Danes. Pressed into service by the Danish authorities, nearly half of them lost their lives or their limbs clearing the two million-odd landmines that the German army had laid in the sand all along Denmark’s western coast. War was hell but peace wasn’t any better for as many as 2,000 young German soldiers in Denmark in the days immediately following Germany’s defeat in the Second World War.
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