Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), the famous ABBA singer, was one of those children. Born to a Norwegian mother, Synni Lyngstad, and a German sergeant, Alfred Haase, on 15 November 1945, only a few months after Germany had lost the war and her father had departed back home, she had to emigrate to Sweden with her mother as a baby because Sweden had a policy of tolerance for the Lebensborn children. After her mother’s death in 1947, she was raised by her grandmother, Anni. She later managed to reconnect with her German father, in 1977.
On the 70th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Norway’s Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, apologized to these women.
