European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Noel Field Hermann was looking for Field from Page w 44jn his fight against his fat Al found be bad a for when he became really they brought in a Doc evidently they did not want him to die he if he threatened to die be could bargain for the result was an almost continuous War of a weird Battle of wits and Iron Wity his method was to go on a hunger sometimes feigning inability to at others openly refusing All his longest overt hunger strike lasted 27 during pan of which time he was forcibly kept alive by liquid feeding through a it came within a few hours of being fatal in this Way Field discovered that when he made demands such As Contact with the or he for the police would sooner have him die but if he con fined himself to demanding improvements in his he often won during the Day he paced Back and Forth liked a caged Bear in the 6h12 cell in the whole five Yean he was never once allowed out of nor Rould he see much through the shuttering outside the cellar window after about four and when the first bout of was there was a tremendous even another human being was pushed into the a per haps a Little older than Field for weeks they were so suspicious of each other that they did not speak which had been put there to try on the other but finally the urge to communicate was stronger than their fear Field found that the newcomer was a pole though Field spoke no polish he and the other Man knew German that they had a language in common they cautiously be Gan to whisper the pole had been in confinement for Over a year mom of it soil without trial and his condition seemed worse than Fields perhaps hews net a but had been put there to pre serve the sanity of both they were allowed by the guards to Only in whispers moreover they always Felt there might be a hidden Micro phone recording what they but slowly they told each other about themselves the pole revealed that he was in his Middle forties and had spent All his life in sharing his country Stormy existence during the last War head taken an Active part in the polish Home the military underground movement against the German occupation As an in officer he was a highly educated trained As an though he had later shifted to journalism and before the War had become an editor of a Well known polish newspaper a lure the War he had held an executive position in Industry until his sudden arrest in ims Fie had a Young wife and a son born Only three years before what had become of them since then he did not know he was a and his name was Stanyslaw Merzenski though their backgrounds were very this was also a source of my it for each could contribute to the life experience of the at first they took turns in making up instalments of a serial and often Field would lie awake at night trying frantically to figure out a development that would carry on the Story where Mier Zenski had left it the previous As they gained the stories became less superficial and More absorbing to the authors and in this Way they composed orally three novels in about six they became dissatisfied with the serial As a medium and took to planning their nov 44ft1he Man then set about putting Al their novels on paper in the eve lying on their Straw they would plan the next Days chapter next morning pacing Ciack and would narrate it in while the Only one allowed to use the wrote rapidly in his notebook in expressing the Story in his own when a Section was Field would spend the rest of the morning re working and preparing to read it Back to the next morning in for nearly five years there was no sign that they would be but toward the end of 1953 events gave them Stalin and perhaps this was the ultimate cause of a change in they were allowed books and a polish news paper in the summer of 1954 Fields Long standing request for architectural drafting instruments and paper was and he set to work at last drawing the plans he and conceived one afternoon a month later he was suddenly taken from his Busy cellar no but a mysterious car this time Landing him in a delightful sanitarium collage in the Middle of a Pine Forest the unbelievable had happened the came and apologized saying it Hod All been a horrible mistake and they wanted to make amends Field was still wonder ing whether to take ail this at its face negotiating alone he requested the release of his fellow the return of All his and financial compensation for the years he had spent imprisoned finally All this was promised and Al though the police were unwilling to free Wierzenski in Token of their Good intentions they took him from his cell to have a Farewell Celebration with Field on his lust night in Poland he was then returned to prison but freed at two months later the notebooks were re turned to Field and the indemnity since when Field was Bierut has died arid Gomulka come into office in Poland symbolic of the shift in polish communist policy it has become possible to publish a Book written by two victims of their Security police in a polish As Well As an English Field is now Back Home Wierzenski is in reunited with his family and Able to work few one of Villi Gens original the town is called replica of Early Villinger heating m Pic the stars and stripes