in 1948, shortly after their third son tibor was born, the banathy family was moved to another camp, near a marshall plan warehouse. bánáthy was assigned to unload sacks of wheat from railroad cars. he contacted the world scouting movement for assistance and began to organize scouting in the dp camps. during 1947, bánáthy was named the hungarian scout commissioner for austria; he led training for hungarian scout leaders along with his former commanding officer farkas. he was ordained by the world council of churches and became minister for youth among hungarian refugees. banathy served as director of religious education of the protestant refugee service of austria, was editor of a religious youth service and of a scout publication.