Migrants housed in Gestapo jail

A FORMER Gestapo jail is being turned into a home for refugees arriving in Germany.

The building in Muenster will be renovated to accommodate 110 asylum seekers.

During the Third Reich, the complex was a regional centre for the Nazi secret police where prisoners were tortured and killed. From 1939, it also served as a centre for the deportation of Jews to the Polish death camps.

A spokesman for the council in North Rhine-Westphalia said: ‘The house was a site of terror in World War Two – now it is to be a site for humanity.’

After the war it was used as an ordinary police station.