It is thought that more than 55,000 people were killed there, many due to medical experiments by Nazi doctors.

Twenty-one men seeking asylum in Germany are now staying in the former Nazi concentration camp and are given 135 Euros each month by the German government for food and necessities. However, critics continue to question the decision to make the concentration camp into a refugee camp.

The website Friday showed images of refugees standing in a carpeted room containing bunk beds, cooking facilities and even a television.

The council spokeswoman called the solution to move 21 refugees into the former camp’s command “a practical one.”

20-year-old Abdurahman Massa from northern Eritrea told The Daily Express that he doesn’t mind what the building was before.

But Carsten Morgenthal, the spokesman for nearby city Schwerte, says that since the end of World War II, the buildings have been used as accommodation for disabled veterans, then as a warehouse, then as an artist’s studio, as well as a kindergarten and Scout base. “It is good here”, he told the paper.

Germany is being challenged to absorb refugees however the situation is expected to be even more hard.

German authorities are now housing 21 male asylum seekers at the site’s former barracks.

In particular, Der Spiegel newspaper quoted Birgit Naujoks, head of the refugee council in North Rhine-Westphalia state, calling the plan “alarming and disconcerting – at the very least insensitive.”

Buchenwald opened in July 1937, originally for political prisoners. The SS also sent Jehovah’s Witnesses, Roma and German military deserters to Buchenwald, along with prisoners of war from other nations. Prisoners were subjected to horrific experiments and controversial procedures such as attempts to cure homosexuality though hormonal transplants. The original buildings where these experiments occurred have since been demolished.