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Luise Urban was born in 1933 into a world about to be turned upside
down. Her family lived east of the river Oder. Fatefully, her
family were not Nazi Party members and suffered as a result. As the
Third Reich crumbled and the Red Army advanced, she was one of 15
million Germans trapped in a war zone during the terrible winter of
1945. Weakened by starvation and forced to flee their home, it was
only the bravery of Luise's mother that saved the family from total
destruction. The Oder-Neisse line (Oder-Neisse-Grenze) is the
German-Polish border drawn in the aftermath of the war. The line
primarily follows the Oder and Neisse rivers to the Baltic Sea west
of the city of Stettin. All pre-war German territory east of the
line and within the 1937 German boundaries was discussed at the
Potsdam Conference in 1945. Germany was to lose 25 per cent of her
territory under the agreement. Crucially, Stalin, Churchill and
Truman also agreed to the expulsion of the German population beyond
the new eastern borders. This meant that almost all of the native
German population was killed, fled or was driven out by force. In A
Dangerous Game, Luise relives that harrowing time, written in
memory of her mother, to whom she owes her life. It is the story of
a child, but it is not a story for children.
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