In the winter of 1993 when the president of the German parliament, Rita Sussmüth appealed to her people to take a family from war-torn Yugoslavia into their homes, Uta and Till Liebau were among the thousands to take up the challenge. The Liebaus took a Muslim-Christian family who had fled Croatia into their home in the German city of Goslar for what turned out to be a stay of three years.
Migrants willkommen
Merkel’s main challenge will be to ensure Germans stay positive about their new integration project
