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Sweden/Germany: Forced Laborers for IKEA

May 17, 2012

IKEA’s assembly network in the 1980s included sites in what was then communist East Germany. It appears that the workforce there included political prisoners forced to work.

https://p.dw.com/p/14won

Documents in the Stasi archives are now said to show that some of the furniture giant’s products were assembled by forced laborers. The company says that if it did happen, then without its knowledge. IKEA has now said it is willing to talk to the former political prisoners in question to clarify the issue.