In the days following Germany's capitulation in May1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and then deployed to the West Coast to dismantle the more than two million mines that the Germans had planted in the sand along the coastline. Under the direction of the Danish sergeant Carl Leopold Rasmussen, the lads were forced to execute the risky labor with their bare hands while crawling in the sand.
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In the days following Germany's capitulation in May1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and then deployed to the West Coast to dismantle the more than two million mines that the Germans had planted in the sand along the coastline. Under the direction of the Danish sergeant Carl Leopold Rasmussen, the lads were forced to execute the risky labor with their bare hands while crawling in the sand.
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