The German government asked the Maltesers to take part in the country’s large-scale humanitarian mission to Vietnam in January 1966. He was one of the 303 Malteser doctors, nurses, medical staff, trainers, and administrators who worked to help civilians between September 1966 and March 1975 during the war between the Communist North and American-supported South in what was then the Maltesers’ largest overseas deployment to date. Now 71, he was a 26 year-old public administration graduate in 1971, when he applied to work for the Foreign Aid Service of the German Malteser Hilfsdienst in Vietnam. That has never left me,” said Thomas Reuther. “Whenever I hear a helicopter I think about Vietnam – even today.
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