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...fallen. A chorus of clear young voices intoned the German army's somber hymn, Ich hatt' einen Kameraden. Then a torchlit procession of 1,400 young Germans and 700 French youths wound down the damp hillside. The ceremony was part of a movement started by Father Theobald Rieth, a German Jesuit who set out ten years ago to turn the graveyards of two world wars into meeting grounds for a new generation of Europeans...
...Rieth's hard-working bands have searched out and restored neglected German graves from the Finnish tundra to the Tunisian desert and-where permitted-have cared for Allied cemeteries as well. From its first camp with 60 volunteers in 1953, Rieth's Reconciliation over Graves program has grown into an international movement in which more than 3,500 volunteers from 16 other countries have taken part along with some 30,000 Germans. This summer 6,345 Europeans out of more than 20,000 applicants, aged 16 to 25, have given up vacation time to work in staggered...
Meanwhile, in Manhattan, glum Germans and sad-eyed Italians were going aboard the West Point. From Ellis Island, where he was taken two months ago for violating U.S. immigration laws, onetime German Minister to Austria Dr. Kurt Rieth was set free. Freed also were Dr. Manfred Zapp and Günther Tonn, U.S. managers of the Nazi Transocean News Service (now closed), who had failed to register with the State Department as foreign agents. The newsmen were to be exchanged for two U.S. newsmen, Jay Allen of North American Newspaper Alliance, Richard Hottelet of United Press, "detained" by the Nazis...
Unlike Dr. Westrick, who left under his own power, Dr. Rieth had no diplomatic credentials. Taken in custody last week by Sylvester Pindyck, supervisor of a special investigating unit of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, he still maintained that he was a private citizen, in the U.S. to look after his family's holdings. Immigration officers took him to Ellis Island, there lodged four charges against him; said his entry was improper because he had stated that he was on private business and claimed never to have visited the U.S. before...
While immigration authorities, moving with unaccustomed speed, made ready to hear his case this week, Nazi officials protested in vain against their No. 1 agent's arrest. In Berlin, Nazi spokesmen said Dr. Rieth had had no "official" connection with the German Government for seven years. In Washington, the German Embassy said he had resigned from the diplomatic service four years ago. In Manhattan, Dr. Hans Borchers, German Consul General, demanded bail for Dr. Rieth, was firmly refused...