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In the case of Ingvar Kamprad, his support for Nazism can be attributed to the fact that his parents were immigrants from the Ingvar Kamprad, and his father and grandfather were pro-Nazi. But it was also the case that there was considerable sympathy for the Nazis among Sweden's upper class between the wars. I remember years ago being shocked when I read Ingmar Bergman’s autobiography *The Magic Lantern*. Bergman pointed out that sympathy for Nazi Germany was widespread in the milieu in which he grew up. Some of his school teachers were openly sympathetic to the “new Germany.” One teacher used to spend his summers attending officers' meetings in Bavaria. Bergman's brother (who would later on enter the diplomatic corps) was an organizer for the Swedish National Socialists. Ingmar himself at the age of 16 went to Germany as an exchange student. Since, he was a pastor’s son, he was paired with a German boy who was also a pastor’s son. This German pastor was an ardent Nazi who was as prone to use texts from Mein Kampf for his Sunday sermons as he was the Gospels. As an exchange student young Ingmar became an enthusiast for Hitler’s regime. Bergman reported that his infatuation with Nazism lasted until after the end of WW II when finally the evidence of what the Nazis did to the Jews and others had become so strong as to become undeniable. However, in the meantime, Ingmar’s family had become close to the German family that he had boarded with. His sister became engaged to the German student that Ingmar had been paired with. He became a pilot in the Luftwaffe and was shot down and killed at the beginning of WW II. I would also add that reading Bergman’s memoir seemed to me to shed new light on some of his best known films. I cannot avoid feeling, for example, that his film, The Seventh Seal, about the knight, Antoninus Block, who returns home to Sweden from the Crusades, thoroughly disillusioned, was reflective of Bergman’s own experience of becoming disillusioned with National Socialism and the Third Reich when they were defeated and Bergman became aware of how evil they were. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Louis Proyect via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> To: Jim Farmelant <farmela...@juno.com> Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: National Socialist Furniture: Ingvar Kamprad and the IKEA Vision Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 07:45:30 -0500 ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. ***************************************************************** https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/02/national-socialist-furniture-ingvar-kamprad-and-the-ikea-vision/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/farmelantj%40juno.com ____________________________________________________________ After Weeks Of Rumors, Joanna Gaines Comes Clean risingstarnewspaper.com http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5a75fb5cd47497b5c4ef7st03vuc _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
