The first of 500 refugees arrived in a tiny German village tonight amid fears it will become overwhelmed by migrants.

Some 100 men, women and children stepped off two buses in the rural village of Sumte, close to the river Elbe in eastern Germany, tonight.

The refugees were welcomed by welfare group Arbeiter- Samariter-Bund (ASB) who have transformed the former offices of a debt collection agency into a shelter for 500.

In the village, which has a population of only 102, a local neo-Nazi councillor is rubbing his hands with delight at the propaganda victory bureaucrats in Berlin appear to have handed him.

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Children were among the 100 refugees who arrived at the former office buildings in Sumte - their new home

Wearing headscarves and wrapped up warmly against the cold German winter, the refugees got off the buses

Children held onto their mothers as they stepped off the buses and began walking towards their new home

Women offered sighs of relief as they stepped off the bus. Children, woken after their long journey, blinked as they saw the bright lights of the centre.

Wearing headscarves and wrapped up warmly against the cold German winter, the refugees walked tentatively inside.

Children, wearing thick coats, jumped down from the bus as media from across Germany, Europe and the world looked on.

Men gathered their few belongings from the luggage hold and joined their families inside their brightly lit new home.

Among the refugees was one family of seven from Syria.

One member, a woman in her 20s, told MailOnline: 'We are a family. We have been traveling for one month. It has been very difficult. I am so pleased we have finally arrived in Germany.'

ASB spokesman Michael Guettler told MailOnline: 'We have created room for 509 people but tonight we have welcomed 100. We expect more people to arrive in the coming days.

Men, women and children get off one of the buses transporting migrants to the rural village of Sumte, Germany

Migrants carry their belongings into the centre which was once office blocks in the sleepy German village

In the village of Sumte has a population of only 102. This is set to increase by 700 per cent as migrants arrive

A family of migrants who are among the first to arrive in Sumte, close to the river Elbe in eastern Germany

'Now they will be given something to eat and then they will be registered.

'They will have a place to sleep, food prepared in a cafeteria and washing facilities.'

The sleepy town of Sumte, inhabited mainly by well-to-do pensioners who live in handsome farmhouses, has become the symbol of Germany's struggle to cope with the overwhelming influx of migrants.

In early October, Sumte's mayor, Christian Fabel, was informed by the district government that his village had to accommodate 1,000 refugees in empty office buildings.

Although the number of refugees was reduced to 750 in a small concession to the villagers, the influx is testing the limits of tolerance in Sumte and across Germany and driving a wedge in the conservative camp of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Hitler admirer Holger Niemann, 32, is one of the few people in Sumte that seems enthusiastic about the refugee plan.

'It is bad for the people, but politically it is good for me,' Mr. Niemann told The New York Times. He went on to say that Germans face 'the destruction of our genetic heritage' and risk becoming 'a gray mishmash'.

Over the weekend, marauding mobs of neo-Nazis went on a long orgy of violence against asylum seekers.

Aerial view of the buildings at the former office park that has become accommodation for migrants

One of four sleeping halls at the former office buildings which have been turned into accommodation

Arrival: The German village of Sumte has just 102 residents. 100 men, women and children arrived tonight

Staff from the charity Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund speak to the media between the beds in a sleeping hall

Children's toys and furniture for the migrant children which have moved into the former office block in Sumte

In scenes chillingly reminiscent of the dark days of the Third Reich, refugees were subjected to abuse, firebombs and even attacked with baseball bats as opposition continues to spike against Angela Merkel's open-door policy to migrants.

The weekend also saw huge rifts appear between Mrs Merkel's CDU party and her sister CSU party in Bavaria which is demanding a closure of Germany's frontier with Austria to any more migrants.

In Meerane in the eastern state of Saxony more than 100 right wingers hurled fireworks at asylum seekers and police as they attempted on Sunday to prevent refugees moving into local accommodation.

In Magdeburg on Sunday morning, a mob of 30 people, some carrying baseball bats, chased three Syrians and beat them.

Police moved in to protect the men and one neo-Nazi tried to club him to the ground before he was subdued with pepper spray.

An elderly resident and her daughter work in the garden in Sumte ahead of the arrival of the migrants

Sumte is a farming village located south-west of Hamburg, Germany, and has a population of just 102 people

In total, 500 migrants will move to the sleepy German village, where the current population is only 102 people

The mob victims aged 26 anf 35 all needed hospital treatment for cuts and bruises.

In Wismar in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Angela Merkel's home state - on Saturday evening, two Syrians aged 31 and 33 were attacked by baseball-bat wielding thugs outside a refugee centre.

They shouted the Nazi greeting 'Sieg Heil' - salute to victory - before laying into both men before fleeing.

The victims were treated for cuts, bruises and suspected concussion at a local hospital.

In Freital - a crucible of trouble in recent weeks where right-wingers even tried to assassinater a left-wing politician with a car bomb because of his support for a local refugee home - there was another firebomb attack against an apartment building housing eight migrants.

In early October, Sumte's mayor, Christian Fabel (pictured), was informed by the district government that his village had to accommodate 1,000 refugees in empty office buildings

A police officer speaks at a meeting on the planned refugee accommodations in the village of Sumte

Residents attend a town meeting on the planned refugee accommodations in the town. 750 refugees are to be accommodated in empty office buildings

The bomb exploded against the bedroom window of a resident who was wounded with shrapnel in the face.

Against this backdrop of violence and intimidation the ruling coalition failed at crunch talks on Sunday to resolve major differences.

The spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel, Steffen Seibert, said after two rounds of weekend negotiations among party leaders that meetings would continue this week.

Meanwhile, a senior official has warned that refugee children in Germany are at risk of being preyed upon by paedophiles due to lack of control at asylum centres.

Johannes-Wilhelm Rörig told the Telegraph that paedophiles could easily get into refugee centres without undergoing identification or verification control and leave without checks.

Migrants heading to Germany after crossing the German-Austrian border near Wegschei

German federal police officers guide a group of migrants on their way after crossing the border between Austria and Germany in Wegscheid near Passau

Migrants queue on a bridge crossing the border river Inn at the German-Austrian frontier between Braunau and Simbach am Inn near Passau. Over the weekend, marauding mobs of neo-Nazis went on a long orgy of violence against asylum seekers

Banner reading 'Stop the asylum terror' is unfolded in Hamburg by representatives of the neo-Nazi NPD party

The warning comes after a 32-year-old man confessed to sexually abusing and killing a four-year-boy after he kidnapped him from a refugee centre in Berlin.

The suspect, known only as Silvio S, was arrested last week after his mother told the police that he may have been involved in the kidnapping of the Bosnian boy, Mohamed.

Mohamed Januzi was last seen on October 1 leaving the central registration centre for migrants in Berlin.

CCTV emerged showing the young boy walking down the street, holding the hand of an unidentified man.

Photos of Mohamed were released by the police, with the case drawing widespread attention from across Germany.

A 32-year-old confessed to sexually abusing and killing Mohamed Januzi, 4, after abducting him from a refugee centre

CCTV shows moment kidnapped Bosnian boy Mohamed Januzi was taken by stranger