This is a human purgatory....but, there is no right or wrong

Alexander 2022-03-29 09:01:06

This is a human purgatory....but, there is no right or wrong.

The hatred of the Danish officers against the German soldiers from the beginning of the story. There is no right or wrong here, no good or evil. "Homomorphic revenge" was originally flowing in our blood and recorded in our DNA. It allowed us to continue our existence in the primitive jungle to this day. And when you have faced the wolf-like German army, the fallen comrades, and the abused compatriots, will you still be able to keep calm when you transfer today? I don't see that the Germans treat their captives better than the Danes... Look at Osinwies, how many unarmed civilians there are.


The war machine drives people to be brutal and to abandon humanity. With cowardly humanity, you will die on the battlefield without seeing the sun of tomorrow.


A young German boy was sent to a simple demining class and a beautiful coastline of death. They are young, energetic, and idealistic, just like our children. But they still have to spend their lives demining. There is no right or wrong here, if it were each of us, we would make such a choice. The mines on the beautiful coastline were laid by the German army, and today they are cleared with German lives. It has nothing to do with the nobility or inferiority of life, this is a kind of "rational" thinking under the pleasure of revenge. Should the lives of the victorious countries be used to bury the sins of the Germans?

Extended question: What exactly is a state? A modern nation is an imaginary community. He is not yours and mine, but is made up of you and me. So, who should pay for the illusory concept of "country"?


The sergeant
major's dog was killed when the sergeant major's dog was killed, in fact, the Germans' lives were not as bad as dogs. Or better than a dog, who can be called by the sergeant like a dog, and use human flesh to clear mines in the "safe zone" like a dog. Isn't this life like a mustard?


The little girl who strayed into the minefield
was lucky that she didn't get blown up on her back. But let's look at it from another angle. If it wasn't for the mines under the German army here, there would be no stray entry at all, on this beautiful beach.


When young lives died, the sergeant finally found that he still had the kindness of others. He let go of his hatred and fulfilled his promise to bring them back to Germany.


The war is so cruel, even for a long time after the war, even a generation, people are equally cruel!



This Danish officer would be you and me, and these German boys could be you and me.


Some say that this beautiful beach is in stark contrast to the dark evils of human nature. Is this really evil? Am I not also a choice...if it's evil, is it just a belated, second-hand evil. The follow-up question of evil happening is like whether the death penalty should exist.

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Land of Mine quotes

  • Sgt. Carl Rasmussen: Those of you who count the mines, make sure my card is updated. This task is as important as defusing mines.

  • Lt. Ebbe Jensen: If they are old enough to go to war, they are old enough to clean up.