Word: rieth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...