Editing Disarmed Enemy Forces (section)

==External links==
* [http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,574180,00.html France's Deadly Mine-Clearing Missions] Surviving German POWs Seek Compensation. Georg Bönisch, ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' Online, international edition August 25, 2008.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071128061447/http://atvs.vg.no/player/?id=2887 Germans forced to run across minefields] ("Tvang tyskere til å løpe over minefelt") Video Extract from Norwegian documentary on Germans forced to clear minefields in Norway. Note: German protests that forcing POWs to clear mines was against international law, article 32 of the Geneva conventions, were rejected with the assertion that the Germans were not POWs; they were disarmed forces who had surrendered unconditionally ("avvæpnede styrker som hadde overgitt seg betingelsesløst"). Mine clearance reports received by the Allied Forces Headquarters state: June 21, 1945; 199 dead and 163 wounded Germans; 3 Norwegians and 4 British wounded. The last registration, from August 29, 1945, lists 392 wounded and 275 dead Germans. Mine-clearance was then for unknown reasons halted for close to a year before recommencing under better conditions during June–September 1946. This time many volunteered thanks to good pay, and death rates were much lower, possibly in part thanks to a deal permitting them medical treatment at Norwegian hospitals. Jonas Tjersland, [http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=166207 Tyske soldater brukt som mineryddere] VG, 08-04-2006.

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