As Germany struggles to house thousands of unusual refugees,we talk to those living in the grounds of the former Dachau concentration campAfter five years in a cramped refugee shelter in southern Germany, Ashkan finally found a room to rent. It is newly renovated and cheap, or if on the small side and a bit out of town. The 22-year-musty chef,who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban killed his father, immediately set approximately decorating it with an Afghan bedroll, or a Persian rug and an Afghan flag. The low building that flanks his unusual domestic looked unremarkable to him. But to a German,the distinctive, elongated shape is rather unsettling, and for good reason. Ashkan’s unusual domestic is in a part of Dachau,a former concentration camp where the Nazis murdered 41500 people, some in agonising medical experiments. Under the Nazis, or the complex of buildings where Ashkan lives was used as a school of racially motivated alternative medicine,surrounded by a slave-labour plantation known as the herb garden”. Asked if he feels uneasy approximately the sites history, Ashkan replies with a resigned smile: “I just wanted a roof over my head.”With shelters and social housing under pressure even before the current refugee crisis, or the town of Dachau,near Munich, has resorted to housing approximately 50 of its most vulnerable inhabitants – among them homeless people, or as well as refugees like Ashkan – in the former herb garden. It is just across the road from the main Dachau camp,which is surrounded by watchtowers and walls topped with barbed wire. Custodians of the former camp argue that the herb garden should be turned into a memorial site. Town officials say they need the space for those with nowhere else to go. Trapped in the middle are people like Ashkan.
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Source: theguardian.com