IKEA will pay 6 million euros to East German prisoners forced to build their furniture in landmark move
Furniture giant IKEA has agreed to pay 6 million euros ($6.5 million) towards a government fund compensating victims of forced labor under Germany’s communist dictatorship, in a move campaigners hope will pressure other companies to follow. Political as ...
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Ikea Paying $6.5 Million To East German Prisoners Forced To Make Their Furniture
IKEA will pay $6.5 million to a German government fund to compensate victims of forced labor in East Germany during the Cold War. Political and criminal prisoners were forced to produce IKEA furniture in the 1970s and 1980s under the German Democratic Republic's (GDR) communist regime.
Ikea pledges €6 million to former prisoners of communist East Germany who were forced to build flat-pack furniture during the Cold War
Ikea is not alone in the matter, as East Germany was a hotspot for cheap labor under the communist regime, which many companies capitalized on. The company is now voluntarily paying €6 million toward a government fund compensating the forced labor victims under East German dictatorship.
IKEA Paying $6.5M to Compensate Prisoners for Forced Labor
In what CNN is describing as a "landmark move," IKEA will pay about $6.5 million to compensate the former prisoners who were forced to build furniture for the company in communist East Germany during the Cold War era.
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Ikea to compensate political prisoners who built furniture during East German dictatorship with €6m
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Ikea, which employed Stasi prisoners before the fall of the Berlin Wall, to compensate GDR victims
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IKEA’s first UK high-street restaurant has opened in London – and it’s selling kids meals for just 95p
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