Ikea will release a report this week addressing claims it benefited from forced labor in communist East Germany, the company and victims groups said…The report by independent auditors Ernst & Young looks into allegations that Ikea used East German suppliers who employed prisoners — some of whom were political dissidents — to manufacture goods for its stores from the 1960s to 1980s. “We hope this will be a first step toward a broader investigation into the use of forced labor in East Germany,” Rainer Wagner, chairman of the victims’ group UOKG, told The Associated Press. “Ikea is only the tip of the iceberg,” he said…Wagner, who was himself imprisoned by East German authorities in the 1960s, praised Ikea for acting quickly on the allegations.