Refugee organizations in Schwerte, Germany, are upset over the town's plan to house asylum-seekers in the barracks of what was once a satellite post of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
The proposed housing unit is on the site of a railway repair workshop where 700 people lived as forced laborers during World War II, the BBC reports. Local authorities want to house 20 asylum-seekers there; a spokesman told Der Spiegel that during the war, laborers never slept in the building, and since then it has been used as a kindergarten, storage site, and home for wounded veterans.
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