: The clearing process was extremely lethal. It is estimated that 149 soldiers were killed and hundreds more wounded during the five-month operation. Historical records indicate approximately 20% of the deminers were killed or injured.
: To clear these fields, British and Danish commands recruited over 2,000 German POWs. To bypass the 1929 Geneva Convention, which prohibited forcing POWs to perform dangerous labor, the soldiers were officially classified as "voluntarily surrendered enemy personnel". subtitle Land.of.Mine.2015.720p.BluRay.x264.[YT...
Following the Nazi surrender in May 1945, Denmark remained booby-trapped with millions of mines laid by German forces to prevent an Allied invasion. : The clearing process was extremely lethal
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