“…Ikea accused of using East German political prisoners to manufacture furniture…”

“…The Swedish flat-pack giant Ikea is today reeling from potentially scandalous allegations that it used scores of political prisoners in former communist East Germany to manufacture its affordable furniture products – in the years leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The charges which include the suggestion that the world’s largest furniture retailer also once worked hand in hand with East Germany’s despised Stasi secret police -

- were made in a Swedish public television documentary which will be broadcast for the first time tomorrow night…”

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Ikea accused of using East German political prisoners to manufacture furniture – Europe – World – The Independent.

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