Following Germany's capitulation in May1945, a group of young German POWs were handed over to the Danish government and dispatched to the West Coast, where they were forced to clear the more than two million mines that the Germans had planted in the sand along the coast. The youngsters were forced to execute the perilous labor with their bare hands, crawling about in the sand, under the command of Carl Leopold Rasmussen, a Danish sergeant.
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Following Germany's capitulation in May1945, a group of young German POWs were handed over to the Danish government and dispatched to the West Coast, where they were forced to clear the more than two million mines that the Germans had planted in the sand along the coast. The youngsters were forced to execute the perilous labor with their bare hands, crawling about in the sand, under the command of Carl Leopold Rasmussen, a Danish sergeant.
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