Religion: Operation Penance

In the Dutch town of Joure last week, 16 young Germans—eleven boys and five girls from 16 to 24—were hard at work building a youth center and studying Hebrew in preparation for work in Israel. In the French village of Taizé, 30 young Germans were working on a new church that will take 14 months to build. None of these youngsters, or the dozens who labored before them on similar projects in Norway, Holland and Greece, expect to be paid a cent. They are working to expiate the guilt of their parents' generation in the demonic days of the Nazis.

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