“WELL!? They put them there in the first place dang it!” And yet, what are we really doing by having these hostages do this work?
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Article 32 expressly states: “It is forbidden to use prisoners of war at unhealthful or dangerous work.”Īnd so this movie is so much a mess of emotions and revenge. But it is expressly forbidden in the Geneva Convention to use prisoners of war for dangerous work. There were boys who blew off arms, and, legs. And yet, you couldn’t make up many of the stories that happened during this time. It is a well researched story, very fact based, but fictional all the same. So Zandvliet, the author of Land of Mine, while searching for ways in which Denmark broke the Geneva convention discovered all these really young German boys in the cemeteries and decided to write about their story.
Defusing landmines while starving? Hahahah. So let’s put them to use.Īre you sensing why this would be a fantastic story? Where does common sense stop? And revenge begin? Oh, and by the way, our lovely Sergeant figured, why feed these guys? So they’d go days without food. Now, in my little mind, I would create a method to spray the beach with rocks in a systematic way in order to just detonate them en masse. HALF! of all these German teens would be dead.
750?! The team would sweep the beach in a single unit in order to create a safe zone behind them. THIRTEEN! Who were ordered to use their – think about this – bare hands, to search for, dig up, and diffuse these millions of mines.ĭoing a little math – each of these 2,000 kids – pulled up 750 mines. So cut back to this movie, that centers on a hard ass Sergeant who commands a troop of these German POWs that were just kids. And now Denmark was stuck with all kinds of pyrotechnics inside their beaches. Someone apparently thought the invasion was coming Denmark’s direction, that’s for sure. I don’t know about you, but that’s just a lot of explosives. How can that even be a thing? But it totally is.Īpparently, at the end of the war, there were more than 2,000 prisoners of war that were forced to remove a million and a half land mines from the west coast of Denmark. But Land of Mine is totally told from the perspective of young teenage German soldiers after the war. Ok, so I should know when to stop when I’m ahead. Wait, was Das Boot? Yeah, but that movie was no good! hahahah.
First, a question, have you ever watched a World War II film told with Nazis as the protagonist? No. Like, upends everything we know and love about the genre. Land of Mine is a completely different take on World War II.