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TIL As the Geneva convention rules that don't allow employing POWs in dangerous tasks; Denmark designated 1,000 Germans as "Surrendered Enemy Personnel" rather than POWs and forced them to work in mine clearance. In 6 weeks, 250 of them have died and were replaced by 1,200 more surrendered Germans.

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