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The intelligence agency is also quoted as having noted that Kamprad "had some sort of functionary position" in a youth Nazi organization that sent him newsletters.
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Ullmann was an Austrian Jew who was sent to Sweden as a young boy just before the outbreak of WWII.While he worked for the Kamprad family in 1944, Ullmann's parents were killed by Nazis in Germany.
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Kamprad has attributed his early sympathies to Nazism on his upbringing, saying he was greatly influenced by his grandmother, a native of the current Czech Republic region of Bohemia, who introduced him to Nazi propaganda magazines at an early age.
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She writes that Kamprad's letters were secretly opened by the security police, and their contents, including information about his effort to recruit new members, were noted on his file, in which the police wrote the word Nazi.
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In 1988, Kamprad admitted his past involvement with Nazism in a book about his life and asked for forgiveness for his "stupidity."
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In a statement, The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants demanded that a probe be opened into Kamprad's past.
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The disclosure marks a major shift for IKEA, the world's No. 1 furniture retailer, founded in 1943 by the-then 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad.
IKEA Lifts Lid on Full-Year Earnings Jens Hansegard 2010
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These recent changes have coincided with the publication of a highly critical book that claimed Ikea remained the fiefdom of its billionaire founder, Ingvar Kamprad, with top management jobs reserved for Swedes and few women executives among its upper echelons.
Ikea's new British furniture range: darker woods, shallower wardrobes, higher beds 2011
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Holocaust survivors are shocked at the reports of the depths of Kamprad's Nazi involvement which he previously had dismissed as mere 'teenage confusion', it said.
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The book also mentions a wedding invitation Kamprad sent to a renown Fascist, Per Engdahl, in 1950, in which he underscored how proud he was that the two belonged to the same circle.
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