Viewpoints Comparative Questions

  1. What differences do Maturi and the authors of the Heidelberg Manifesto identify between native Germans and immigrants working and living in Germany? What importance do they attach to these differences?
  2. How would you account for the very different attitudes toward immigrant workers revealed in these two documents? What had changed in Germany between 1961 and 1982?
  3. On what, if anything, might Maturi and the authors of the Heidelberg Manifesto have agreed? What solutions might Maturi have suggested to the problems identified by the manifesto’s authors?

Deniz Gokturk, David Gramling, and Anton Kaes, eds., Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955–2005 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 111–113.