Children playing with German landmines (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Children playing with German landmines

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A Norwegian newspaper story from April 8, 1946 describes how children in the lakeside town of Gjøvik were playing with German landmines that had been dumped in Lake Mjøsa and exposed when the lake levels dropped.   

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From Samhold, 8 April 1946.

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