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September 6th, 2011 - 7:46 am § in Politics

BREAKING NEWS: Ikea ‘used political prisoners in GDR as slave labour’

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. Ikea developed strong links with the communist state in the 1970s, opening a number of manufacturing facilities, one of wh[...]