An opening scene shows a Danish officer stopping his jeep beside a ragged column of German soldiers, laying into one of them with unadorned hatred. ![]() In Martin Zandvliet's gripping, disturbing film, the fact that it was a British decision is not mentioned. About 2,600 Germans were set to work in May 1945, although most were not engineers. ![]() ![]() The British invented their own logic: these were not POWs but "voluntarily surrendered enemy personnel".Īnd since the German engineers knew how to defuse the different types better than allied soldiers, they could do the work. ![]() No one bothered to mention that it was against the Geneva Convention to put prisoners of war to dangerous work.
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