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After Michigan convicts had finished mailing 2,300,000 No. 3 ration books for OPA, prison officials found that...
...successful escape from a German prison camp of Jean Hélion, French soldier and abstractionist painter, ranks with the escape of Casanova from the Leads, or Peter Kropotkin from the fortress of Peter & Paul. This book is the detailed description of Hélion's two-year imprisonment and flight (TIME, Nov. 23). As a breath-taking narrative of captivity and escape and as a unique firsthand description of the miseries of life among Germany's French prisoners, They Shall Not Have Me is one of the half-dozen most remarkable books of World...
...Defeated. After the collapse of the French armies, captive French soldiers were marched 20 to 40 miles a day without food, crammed into temporary French prison camps. Later they were packed into filthy freight cars and shipped to Germany. Half-starved and battered with gun butts, Hélion and nine comrades were sent to a big baronial estate in Pomerania. Baroness von Z. looked with disgust at her new gang of ragged, dirty farm hands. Her overseer gave tongue to a "wide gamut of howls." He wanted huskier help. For six months Painter Hélion and his mates...
When spring came, Hélion was transferred to a prison ship, anchored in the harbor of Stettin. Seven hundred and fifty Frenchmen were lodged in the ship's holds and farmed out to local factories. But their real lives began at night when the great doors of the holds had clanged shut on them. Then the prisoners crept out of their bunks to dark corners where, with light provided by stolen electrical equipment (salvaged from the wreckage of R.A.F. bombings in the neighborhood), they set up "clubhouses . . . based on a unique interest...
...escape Hélion faked a toothache, gained a few precious hours away from his office job. From under the fixed seats of three latrines he took his carefully hidden garments, changed from prison clothes to civvies. Then, with his prison coat thrown loosely over his disguise, he joined his mates in the yard to watch a minutely rehearsed game of volleyball...