It was a miracle in the midst of a forgotten tragedy, and one to which a British family owe their very existence.
In the dying days of the Second World War, one mother, who was fleeing the murderous advance of the Russian army, woke up from a terrifying dream and made a split-second – seemingly suicidal – decision.
It was 1945 and Anita Tollkuhn and her daughter Inge were among millions desperately trying to escape the far eastern German province of East Prussia as the Third Reich collapsed and Soviet troops massacred every man, woman and child in their path.
