Anonymous Coward User ID: 13744385 United Kingdom 05/01/2012 04:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | IKEA 'used East German political prisoners arrested by Stasi to make its furniture in the 1970s and 80s' [ link to www.dailymail.co.uk] Furniture giant IKEA used political prisoners arrested by the dreaded Stasi secret police of former East Germany to make its products in the 1970s and 80s, it has been alleged. The claims will be aired tomorrow on Swedish TV station Sveriges Television's (SVT). Initially the company denied the reports but then said it had requested documents from the Stasi archive. It has now said it is 'interviewing people at Ikea who were around back then,' according to Ikea's social and environmental manager Jeanette Skjelmose. She said: 'So far there are no indications that we would have asked that prisoners be used in manufacturing or known about it. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 15350970 United States 05/01/2012 04:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: IKEA 'used East German political prisoners arrested by Stasi to make its furniture in the 1970s and 80s' Can we maybe find some way to get some Muslim action into this somehow? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 10644407 United States 05/04/2012 05:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: IKEA 'used East German political prisoners arrested by Stasi to make its furniture in the 1970s and 80s' I knew IKEA was evil. This just proves it. Thanks OP! Great find! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 53821038 United States 05/29/2014 02:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: IKEA 'used East German political prisoners arrested by Stasi to make its furniture in the 1970s and 80s'
There are still some big companies that use/used slave/prison labor. It is more common than people think. I went in IKEAs new Denver store and utterly hated it. I hate their shopping setup and experience. The place is set up so that you are forced to walk through every department whether you want to or not. And there were hundreds of people there. It wasn't like a store. It was like an entertainment destination, a Disneyland of home furnishings, with millions of kids running around everywhere! Coughing and sneezing... OMG if you are like me, single, over 50, don't get out much... That shopping trip was an exhausting shock. Compared to the department stores of my youth, IKEA doesn't resemble a store at all. Boy that was back in the day. They had huge dining rooms (they called them "Tea Rooms" with hundreds of tables where ladies would lunch while shopping. I can still recall the clatter of dishes and chatter of hundreds of ladies! Nothing like IKEA, not in the least. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 36532818 Sweden 05/29/2014 02:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: IKEA 'used East German political prisoners arrested by Stasi to make its furniture in the 1970s and 80s' I dunno if it´s allowed to talk about Corporate Greed? I know we ´re toast if we would comment on immigration for example, to name something randomnly.
There´s nothing wrong with Sweden! No curruption or whatever. There are zero greedy f a s c i s t s here. My uncle says that too. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 58068420 United States 05/29/2014 02:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: IKEA 'used East German political prisoners arrested by Stasi to make its furniture in the 1970s and 80s' Can we maybe find some way to get some Muslim action into this somehow?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 15350970 lol.lol.lol |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 58558395 Germany 05/29/2014 02:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: IKEA 'used East German political prisoners arrested by Stasi to make its furniture in the 1970s and 80s'
[ link to www.dailymail.co.uk] Furniture giant IKEA used political prisoners arrested by the dreaded Stasi secret police of former East Germany to make its products in the 1970s and 80s, it has been alleged. The claims will be aired tomorrow on Swedish TV station Sveriges Television's (SVT). Initially the company denied the reports but then said it had requested documents from the Stasi archive. It has now said it is 'interviewing people at Ikea who were around back then,' according to Ikea's social and environmental manager Jeanette Skjelmose. She said: 'So far there are no indications that we would have asked that prisoners be used in manufacturing or known about it. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13744385 You may want to look into IKEA founders record. Then you will understand. He was a member of a quite exclusive circle. |