The mines are, of course, built to explode, and one slip in the defusing can prove disastrous. It’s nerve-straining work: the mines are buried in the sand, and must be found by prodding the beach with an iron rod while crawling over already-cleared ground. The tension established, Zandlivet tightens the screw: Rasmussen’s assignment is to oversee a detail of German prisoners as they work to clear a section of Denmark’s west coast of 45,000 land mines, planted by Germans in preparation for an Allied invasion that never came.
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