The IKEA story  

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spacepirate1,
1. I am not a Jew.
2. You do not know how to read for comprehension.
3. You are starting to sound stupid and should practice silence.

Says the man who just...
Says the man who just yesterday discovered Ikea's past.
Niceguy you're a moron and noone cares. I guess you were expecting some kind of medal for posting this article here.
People will continue shopping at Ikea and you will continue being a bitter drama queen.

what was that I said
spacepirate1,
What was that I said about starting to sound stupid. Success has been achieved, you do sound stupid.

I AM Jewish
and at 60 years old, I no longer think that what happened 70+ years ago have anything to do with current German, Polish, or any other companies. They're all dead, girlfriend.
Another example:
I collect vintage 78's and I have a number of records made by Gennett Records of Richmond, Indiana. This was a conservative company that originally made pianos, and all through the 1920's they also recorded and issued custom 78's by the Ku Klux Klan!
Do I give a crap what went down 84 years ago? Not on your tintype.

Barry
Do I give a crap what went down 84 years ago? Not on your tintype.
posted by barrympls
you should!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, certainly.
And keep throwing it in the face of anyone who dares to suggest we haven't suffered enough. Keep the pain alive, indefinitely -- it's the least we can do. Grieve, endlessly, for what was lost. Don't ever let anyone forget the suffering.
Sue someone because your twin died at the World Trade Center. It has to be someone's fault; someone owes you something for your pain. God forbid we should pick ourselves up and move on . . .

Barry i think you have...
Barry i think you have the krups appliances confused .......
Krups is probably being confused with the Krupp works, for many years the leading German munitions maker. (You've heard of Big Bertha, the giant cannon used by the Germans during World War I? It was named after Bertha Krupp, the wife of the family-owned firm's patriarch.) Krupp didn't make crematoria either, but it did use 100,000 slave laborers to make weapons at Auschwitz and other death camps. Boss Alfried Krupp was sentenced to 12 years for war crimes but was freed in 1951--cynics say because the Korean War had just broken out and the U.S. needed Krupp's industrial might as a bulwark against the Reds. Its assets restored, Krupp again became a corporate giant and remains so today.

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Either way, I can't get worked up on products that have a weird or controversial past.
My main issue with IKEA is their lack of quality, difficult assembly, and the fact that when they open up a store in a region of the US, they have put a lot of good second hand furniture stores out of business.