New report: Ikea is run by an old Nazi who used East German political prisoners as slave labor

Coach is Right ^ | 9/7/2011 | Kevin Collins

[Oldpuppymax]

It seems like Ikea stores are everywhere. They are the Starbucks of furniture.

They offer us not only low priced cabinets chairs and other household goods,but an opportunity to impress our friends with our ability to construct these pieces using the directions supplied by Ikea.

Getting through an afternoon’s Ikea project in one continuous motion is kind of like being able to do the New York Times crossword puzzle in pen – an achievement to be sure.

That’s the warm and fuzzy side of the furniture giant. That’s the part they want us to see. “Think Ikea and think The Swedish Women’s Olympic Bikini Team” or so it goes.

Now for some reality

Ikea is run by Ingvar Kamprad,a George Soros type skunk that has a resume even Soros might envy.

A report put together by the former East German secret police has recently surfaced which paints ugly picture of Kamprad. The Stasi (East Germany’s secret police) file on him talks about how Ikea used “political prisoners” (read freedom fighters), captured by the Stasi, as slave laborers to make the company’s furniture parts during the height of the Communist State’s power in the 1970’s.

Of course Ikea founder and CEO Kamprad “knows nothing” of this ugly business or so he says.

Ikea is actually an acronym constructed by using Ingvar Kamprad’s initials and adding them to the initials of his hometown Elmtaryd in Agunnaryd.

Saying hedid not know about every single detail of Ikea’s day to day operations is ridiculous.

Ingvar Kamprad has always been a parasite. In 1942 as a 16 year old he joined the Swedish equivalent of the Nazi Party. The next year he started Ikea.

[onedoug]

Just like an arab....

[Hodar]

For me, the best part of a visit to Ikea is the cafeteria. No one makes swedish meatballs like Ikea. Langenberry juice goes so well with it.

And the candy ... might have to take a vacation day this afternoon and drive down .... drool ....

[BUGSWOL]

If you think this is bad you shold read Dr Joseph P Ferrel’s bood The Nazi International.

[Polybius]

Ikea is run by an old Nazi ....

For me, the best part of a visit to Ikea is the cafeteria.

[gandalftb]

Can’t be much of a nazi. Here’s the link to the IKEA store in Israel:

http://www.ikea.co.il/category/IKEA_MAP

[heartwood]

I make much better Swedish meatballs than IKEA. Theirs are just salty and the gravy gooey. And the mashed potatoes that come with them close to inedible. Lingonberries are lowbush cranberries and taste the same as highbush IMO. (Six days ago my 9 y.o. and I split a plate of meatballs at IKEA. Not tempted to order more.)

Cooks Illustrated has a good Swedish meatball recipe.

Getting off this tangent, I will be reconsidering future purchases at IKEA.

[Buckeye McFrog]

those cheesy hinges and drawer pullers always struck me as something that would have been made in East Germany

[ml/nj]

The Stasi (East Germany’s secret police) file on him talks about how Ikea used “political prisoners” (read freedom fighters), captured by the Stasi, as slave laborers to make the company’s furniture parts during the height of the Communist State’s power in the 1970’s.

So I'm sure we would be able to find significant increases in the prices of of Ikea's furniture following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

ML/NJ

[jmaroneps37]

So having a store in Israel means he couldn’t possibly be a Nazi - who knew? Who could have figure that?

[rmlew]

I've called it Stack a prole furniture as a joke. Never occurred to me that I'd be right on the money.
I'm going to have to find another place to get Swedish Candy, Lingonberry jam, and Swedish meatballs. Asking the staff to pronounce the names of items was always a hoot.

[JoeProBono]

[gandalftb]

Of course he was a Swedish nazi until 1948, he readily admits it.

This is hardly news. In 1999, 12 years ago, Kamprad wrote two chapters to his involvement in his book, Leading By Design: The IKEA Story. In a 1994 letter to IKEA employees, called his affiliation with the organization the "greatest mistake of my life."

People can change. If Israel can accept him and his store.......could it be forgiveness? Might be, you can read about it in any Bible.

[gandalftb]

Bottom line: this is not a "New Report" as the header claims.

It is all very old news rehashed by a drive-by blog trouble-maker intended to hustle readers into hysteria against a powerful icon that they have some sort of grudge against.

Do a little research before you grab up cheap commentary like this.