Following Germany's surrender in May 1945, the Danish government and British forces tasked more than 2,000 German soldiers—many of whom were teenagers drafted in the final months of the war—with disarming the massive minefields planted by the Nazis.
The 2015 historical drama film (Danish title: Under Sandet ) explores a haunting, often-overlooked chapter of post-WWII history: the forced labor of German prisoners of war (POWs) to clear over two million landmines from Denmark's western coast. Plot Summary