Ingvar Kamprad entitled "A Testament of a Furniture Dealer" in 1976. Kamprad also worked with Swedish journalist Bertil Torekull on "Leading by Design: The IKEA Story". In the autobiographical book, Kamprad further describes his philosophies and the trials and triumphs of the founding of IKEA. In 1994, the personal letters of the Swedish fascist activist Per Engdahl were made public, posthumously, revealing that Kamprad had joined Engdahl's pro-fascist New Swedish Movement ("Nysvenska Rörelsen") in 1942, at age 16. Kamprad had raised funds and recruited members for the group, at least as late as September 1945. When he quit the group is unknown,
Ingvar Kamprad ("Fanny") Glatz was born in Radonitz (Radonice) in Bohemia in then-Austria-Hungary; they left Germany for Sweden in 1896. The surname Kamprad was a variant of "Comrade" and dates back to the 14th century; in the 19th century the Kamprad family had become wealthy estate owners in Thuringia. Achim Kamprad's mother was a distant relative of Paul von Hindenburg. Achim was the younger son of an estate owner and had bought the farm Elmtaryd (presently standardized "Älmtaryd") near the small village of Agunnaryd (now part of Ljungby Municipality) in the province of Småland; with 449 hectares of land it was the