European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                F e t u re o n Field before his ordeal reunion Hermann Field is greeted in London by his wife and two sons after years of ordeal of Hermann Field revealed full Story of americans five year imprisonment is disclosed for first time by London publisher tie first full Story of the imprisonment of Arm rican architect her Mann Field by to huh Security police for five without trial jut been Duc Josed in the was told in a note with a novel written by Field and a polish Tell Stan Law who after Long period of solitary confinement was pot in Fields cubicle perhaps not As a spy but to preserve the sanity of the angry was published by Victor the based on information supplied by Field which he withheld at the time of his release in the following Story born american Quaker Stock and reared in was in Poland at the outbreak of War administering Relief to included Many prominent czech communists and he returned to Europe in 1m9 for an architects conference in then visited Beecho Slovakia and Poland to look for his brother Noel and adopted both of whom had disappeared behind the Iron note continued after a week in Field went to the Airport on 22 to Fly his friends left Hun to go through the and at this Point he was abducted by polish Security by United press International i Mead of reaching the he was taken to their Headquarters in Warsaw and Hhd there and questioned for about two his requests to communicate with the outside world were and one night he was blindfolded and taken Oft by car to a mysterious destination outside the City Here he was deposited in the cellar of an unknown in a cell Winch became his Home for the next five years though Field did not know he was in the St ret interrogation Center run by the now notorious department 10 of the Security in the country some Miles Southeast of the note for three months he was interrogated As a possible american but he was never placed on he could not let either his family or the state department know what had happened to As the Days became and the weeks the of utter helpless Ness became of course it was no Accident that he was kept in Soli tary confinement with nothing to occupy him or take his mind off insoluble he Felt he was being entombed ignored and forgotten by the it was the beginning of the breaking Down although not physically mistreated him he was humiliated in All possible ways he often Lay awake at night listening to the sounds of other prisoners being Given More brutal treatment to obtain con suggestion of what might be in store for for a he was interrogated always being taken up at night when he must also fight the desire to finally the fear of utter oblivion brought him to the Point of thinking that his Only possible course was to provoke a then at least there was a Chance that the world would where he and the Only Way of getting a trial seemed to be of fabricate a Story that would make him the guilty spy they finally he worked out such a Story and asked to Spenk to an but the officer would not see him till after the week during that weekend Field thought better of How could he be sure that trial would be Public or that he would not receive a death sentence after that there were times when he feared and others when suicide seemed the Only Way yet his instinct for survival was and gradually he began to get a second he decided that life was infinitely worthwhile and that to destroy himself would Only be playing his captors game instead he would fight on two and against the self destructive urges in on Page 19 t october i95t the stars and stripes 11