Zarah Leander - The Biggest NAZI Film Star who Mocked Hitler’s Appearance & Sold Her Morals to Nazis

Zarah Leander - The Biggest NAZI Film Star who Mocked Hitler’s Appearance & Sold Her Morals to Nazis. Zarah Leander, one of 6 children, was born as Sara Stina Hedberg on 15 March 1907 in Karlstad, Sweden. Her father Anders was a merchant and real estate agent. Zarah studied piano and violin as a child and sang on stage for the first time at the age of six. Through the influence of her German nanny and her German piano teacher, she was familiar with the German language and culture from an early age. Between 1922–1924 Zarah lived for two years in Riga, Latvia, where she learned fluent German. She then took up work as a secretary. In 1926, Leander tried unsuccessfully to be admitted to the Royal Drama School in Stockholm. It was on this occasion that she met her future first husband, the actor Nils Leander. They married the same year and the marriage produced two children born in 1927 and 1929. Zarah’s husband Nils Leander helped her get some theater roles and they were initially qui