Hello Indy, Spartacus, and everyone on the team! I am proud to be in the TimeGhost Army now! I have watched all of The Great War and am now faithfully following WW2 in Real Time. I have been wondering why after the war, so many landmines were left buried in places like North Africa? These mines continue to kill people to this day. I do however know that controversially German POWs were used to remove mines in places like Denmark also. (sorry for spoilers)
P.S. I am anxious to hear how Indy pronounces my name (hint it is Spanish)!
Hi Adan, and a warm welcome to the Timeghost Army forum!
Your question is very valid but alas all wars leave more deadly mines or other ordenance behind and it is still piling up because it’s a risky and costly job to safely remove them.
I went to Cambodia in 2006 and I even couldn’t go beyond the beaten path because of all the minefields out there!
The only way is to stop waging war and refurbish the earth, heal all pain and hate and respectfully let people live in their own space in their own opinions and believes.
One of many reasons was that many minefields were hastily made and no proper markings were made on where they were. So lets imagine a german unit tasked to lay a minefield to slow down a soviet offense in late war. They probably made a general marking on some map and that’s it. And many times the minefield was ultimately left to the attacker to take care of and without any maps or other information about them it would be time consuming job to clear all of them out. Also documents, which might have had all the information needed to clear out minefields, were either deliberately destroyed or lost in the heat of battle.
Maps are lost or destroyed, soldiers forget or are killed and large armies and formations are behemoths that dont care about a small minefield or two in the grand scale.
