Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar
I Sverige hamnade storstadspojken Otto i Småland, blir dräng och går från gård till gård. Med tiden fick han arbete som dräng hos familjen Kamprad på gården Elmtaryd i Agunnaryd. Mellan sonen i huset, Ingvar, och Otto uppstod en stark vänskap. Samtidigt var Ingvar Kamprad aktivt engagerad i nazistiska organisationer och en stor anhängare av fascisten Per Engdahl.
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Tidningen THE TELEGRAPH skriver 18 september 2011 att IKEA beslutat sig för att skänka en miljard kronor per år till välgörenhet - som en direkt följd av att jag fann uppgifterna om Kamprads medlemskap i det svenska nazistpartiet (SSS). (Och kanske hans uttalade lojalitet med fascisten och antidemokraten Per Engdahl 2010?)
IN ENGLISH: The 18;th September 2011 The Telegraph writes that the IKEA’s billionaire founder Ingvar Kamprad has pledged £1bn to charity in a move which follows my revelations about his Nazi past.
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Den 9 augusti 2010 intervjuade jag Ingvar Kamprad på IKEAS huvudkontor i Älmhult. Han är koncernens ledare, hans assistent satt med hela tiden och allt spelades in. Ingvar Kamprad fick ta del av utskrift av intervjun så som den publiceras i boken i januari 2011 men hade inga kommentarer. Därefter avböjde han två förfrågningar om kompletterande intervjuer.
ur intervjun:
Elisabeth Åsbrink: Vad jag är nyfiken på, som du märker, är ju hur det gick ihop. Att man ändå kunde tycka att Engdahls idéer var något viktigt och riktigt och ändå vara nära vän med någon som hade fått vara med om konsekvenserna av en del av de idéerna.
Hur tänkte du? Vad visste du?
Ingvar Kamprad:
Det finns ingen motsättning för mig. Att Per Engdahl var en stor människa, det kommer jag att vidmakthålla så länge jag lever.
Kommentar: Jag ställer frågan för att förstå hur sympatierna och engagemanget med Per Engdahls idéer gick att kombinera med den nära vänskapen med Otto Ullmann, vars föräldrar fängslats i Theresienstadt i två år och som hösten 1944 mördades i Auschwitz.
Min fråga utgår alltså från den politiska Per Engdahl - inte från privatpersonen. Det är hans idéer som Ingvar sympatiserade med - enligt egen utsaga - och som rimligtvis måste skapa en konflikt med Kamprads vänskap till den judiske flyktingen vid hans sida. Jag kan alltså inte se att frågan, eller svaret, är uttryckt ur något relevant sammanhang. /Elisabeth Åsbrink 24 augusti 2011
IN ENGLISH
And in Wienerwald the trees remain by Elisabeth Åsbrink
Otto, a Jewish boy, was sent from Austria to Sweden right before the outbreak of World War II. There he became best friends with Ingvar Kamprad.
Despite the huge Swedish resistance to Jews, the 13-year-old Otto Ullman was granted permission to enter Sweden – all in accordance with the Swedish archbishop's secret plan to save Jews on condition that they converted to Christianity.
Otto found work as a farmhand at the Kamprad family's farm Elmtaryd in Agunnaryd in the province of Småland. Ingvar and Otto became very close friends. But at the same time, Ingvar Kamprad was actively engaged in Nazi organisations and a great supporter of the fascist Per Engdahl. Otto's parents were trapped in Vienna, and the last letters he received were sent from Theresienstadt.
With over 500 letters and thorough research as a starting point, Elisabeth Åsbrink portrays how Swedish society was infused with anti-Semitism and how families are shattered by war and asylum politics. The book contains interviews with Ingvar Kamprad.
Elisabeth Åsbrink's book Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar (And in Wienerwald the trees remain), reveals previously unknown facts about Ingvar Kamprad. Her sources are personal files initiated by the predecessor to today's Swedish Security Service (SÄPO).
Ingvar Kamprad was a member of the Swedish Nazi party Svensk Socialistisk Samling (Swedish Socialist Unity) as from 1943. His member number was 4014.
In 1943, the Security Service set up a file on the then 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad with the heading ”NAZI”. His letters were steamed open and are quoted in the file. Among other things he writes about recruiting new members and says that ”he misses no opportunity to work for the movement”.
Ingvar Kamprad received the party's youth group newspaper Rätt (Justice), and ”thus holds some sort of official position within said organization” (quote from the Security Service).
Kamprad has confessed that he sympathized with Svensk Socialistisk Samling, but then went on to support Per Engdahl's Nysvenska rörelsen (New Swedish Movement). He has repeatedly called the whole thing ”sins of youth”, ”teenage confusion” and such.
The New Swedish Movement wished for the victory of Nazism over Communism, and Engdahl himself wrote a large number of articles and editorials inciting people against Jews in his paper Vägen Framåt (The Way Forward). Kamprad and Engdahl became close friends, and Kamprad knew personally several leading figures of the New Swedish Movement. He contributed money, recruited members and published at least one book written by Per Engdahl.
In August last year, Kamprad told Elisabeth Åsbrink in a recorded interview: ”Per Engdahl was a great man, this I will maintain for as long as I live.”
And in Wienerwald the trees remain by Elisabeth Åsbrink
Otto, a Jewish boy, was sent from Austria to Sweden right before the outbreak of World War II. There he became best friends with Ingvar Kamprad.
Despite the huge Swedish resistance to Jews, the 13-year-old Otto Ullman was granted permission to enter Sweden – all in accordance with the Swedish archbishop's secret plan to save Jews on condition that they converted to Christianity.
Otto found work as a farmhand at the Kamprad family's farm Elmtaryd in Agunnaryd in the province of Småland. Ingvar and Otto became very close friends. But at the same time, Ingvar Kamprad was actively engaged in Nazi organisations and a great supporter of the fascist Per Engdahl. Otto's parents were trapped in Vienna, and the last letters he received were sent from Theresienstadt.
With over 500 letters and thorough research as a starting point, Elisabeth Åsbrink portrays how Swedish society was infused with anti-Semitism and how families are shattered by war and asylum politics. The book contains interviews with Ingvar Kamprad.
Elisabeth Åsbrink's book Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar (And in Wienerwald the trees remain), reveals previously unknown facts about Ingvar Kamprad. Her sources are personal files initiated by the predecessor to today's Swedish Security Service (SÄPO).
Ingvar Kamprad was a member of the Swedish Nazi party Svensk Socialistisk Samling (Swedish Socialist Unity) as from 1943. His member number was 4014.
In 1943, the Security Service set up a file on the then 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad with the heading ”NAZI”. His letters were steamed open and are quoted in the file. Among other things he writes about recruiting new members and says that ”he misses no opportunity to work for the movement”.
Ingvar Kamprad received the party's youth group newspaper Rätt (Justice), and ”thus holds some sort of official position within said organization” (quote from the Security Service).
Kamprad has confessed that he sympathized with Svensk Socialistisk Samling, but then went on to support Per Engdahl's Nysvenska rörelsen (New Swedish Movement). He has repeatedly called the whole thing ”sins of youth”, ”teenage confusion” and such.
The New Swedish Movement wished for the victory of Nazism over Communism, and Engdahl himself wrote a large number of articles and editorials inciting people against Jews in his paper Vägen Framåt (The Way Forward). Kamprad and Engdahl became close friends, and Kamprad knew personally several leading figures of the New Swedish Movement. He contributed money, recruited members and published at least one book written by Per Engdahl.
In August last year, Kamprad told Elisabeth Åsbrink in a recorded interview: ”Per Engdahl was a great man, this I will maintain for as long as I live.”
Här följer bilder av familjen Ullmann, samt historiska dokument som ligger till grund för Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar.
Here I will display photos of the Ullmann family, and some of the historical documents I have used as sources for And in Wienerwald the trees remain.
Do not use without permission. /Elisabeth Åsbrink
Otto Ullmann, 1948. (privat ägo)
Otto with family and friends Vienna. (private)
The list of children selected by the Swedish Israelsmissionen to be rescued in Sweden, the majority of them christened as a condition from the Swedish church. (c) E Åsbrink
The decision by the Swedish Government to let the children enter Sweden. Instead of their religion, the authoritys all label the children with an (m) as in Mosaic -in other words jewish. No other group of immigrants received a similar label. (c) E Åsbrink
Some of the children as they just arrived to the orphanage i south of Sweden i February 1939. (private)
One of the over five hundred letters Ottos parents sent to him before they were murdered. This was written in the concentratoncamp Theresienstadt. Note adress to Ingvar Kamprads estate Elmtaryd, in Agunnaryd. (c) E Åsbrink
Detail from the file on Ingvar Kamprad created by the Swedish secret police in 1943. Here his membership in the naziparty (SSS) is noted, as his number of membership; 4014. (c) E Åsbrink
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