Swedish retail giant Ikea used political prisoners in East Germany as “slave labour” to make furniture, secret police files unearthed by a German broadcaster appear to show. Quoted in a Stasi file, Ingvar Kamprad, Ikea’s founder, said while he had no official knowledge of the use of prison labour, if it did indeed exist “in the opinion of Ikea it would be in society’s interests.” In 1942, Kamprad was a member of the New Swedish Movement, a fascist party supportive of the Nazis. Nazis and Commies, they go together like the Obamas and lavish taxpayer-funded vacations.
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