Poland, every mention

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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Poland comes up

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▶ 1:08:16 David Rosenthal So, Ingvar starts looking around elsewhere in Europe to expand supplier production, and then in 1960, Ingvar reads in the Swedish newspaper that the foreign minister of Poland is coming to visit the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce with the…
▶ 1:08:45 David Rosenthal Well, Poland at the time was a communist country behind the iron curtain.
▶ 1:09:14 David Rosenthal So in 1961, IKEA goes to Poland to
▶ 1:09:28 David Rosenthal And by the end of the decade of the sixties, Poland is producing 50% of IKEA's furniture, including some of the first modern classics like the Billy Bookcase, the Ogla Cafe chair.
▶ 1:10:46 David Rosenthal Poland is where they produce this coffee table that they use particle board, you know, sandwich board construction inspired by how doors are made.

▶ 51:27 David Rosenthal But then, literally right at the same time, World War II starts, and Denmark is invaded by the Nazis shortly after they invade Poland, and in April, 1940, the Nazis now occupy Denmark.
▶ 54:15 David Rosenthal To massively expand production and supply insulate, you know, not only to Germany, but to France, to Poland, to Austria, to all, everywhere in continental Europe, basically.

▶ 2:57:27 Ben Gilbert Finland bought 64, Germany 35, Greece 20, the Czech 24, Canada 88, Poland 32,

▶ 2:54:29 David Senra I'm kind of freaking out about that, uh, was Sam, I, I understand and empathize with your story because Sam's story is his dad being Jewish, getting the last train out of Poland before the Nazis bomb it.

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