History of Sorts

There will be only a few people who may not have heard of ABBA. The Swedish band shot to world fame in 1974 after winning the Eurovision Song Contest on 9 April 1974 with their song ‘Waterloo.”

However, not all of them were born in Sweden. Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad was born on 15 November 1945 in Bjørkåsen, a small village in Ballangen near Narvik, in northern Norway. Her early life was a lot different than that of the other three band members were born in neutral Sweden.

Lebensborn was an Aryan breeding program established in 1935 and the brainchild of Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS. He wanted to breed what he considered racially superior children. Himmler regarded the Norwegians with blue eyes and blond hair as pure Aryan. The aim of the program was to entrust the leadership of Norway to the new generation of Aryans after the war…