If you buy furniture at Ikea, you're buying from a Nazi
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Brian (aka trav007)
Aug 24 '11, 17:54
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msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 8/24/2011 4:41:14 PM ET
STOCKHOLM � A new book claims IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad's youth ties with Nazi groups extended beyond what he has previously admitted, saying Sweden's intelligence agency even set up a special file on him.
Respected Swedish author and journalist Elisabeth Asbrink says Kamprad joined the Swedish Nazi party in 1943 when he was 17, prompting the security police to set up a file on him the same year.
Asbrink also claims in her book, "And in Wienerwald the Trees Remain," that the Swedish furniture chain founder was in contact with Nazi sympathizers until at least 1950 � two years longer than he had previously acknowledged.
She writes that Kamprad's letters were secretly opened by the security police, and their contents, including information about his effort to recruit new members, were noted on his file, in which the police wrote the word Nazi. "They were steamed open, copied, and closed again," Asbrink writes in the book.
Kamprad in the intercepted letters enthuses about recruiting new members and says that he "misses no opportunity to work for the movement," the Telegraph of London reported.
The intelligence agency is also quoted as having noted that Kamprad "had some sort of functionary position" in a youth Nazi organization that sent him newsletters.
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