Our street
Our street. A chronicle. Written in the heart of fascist Germany is a novel by Jan Petersen . The book was first published in Prague in 1936 and in Germany in 1947.
Our street is considered to be the only anti-National Socialist novel that was written in Hitler's Germany itself and published during the Third Reich . It is to be regarded as a factual report, although the names and personal data of some of the people involved have been changed so that no one could be incriminated if the manuscript was discovered .
The action begins a few days before the Nazis come to power and ends in mid-1934. The political events of the time are portrayed from the perspective of an anti-fascist resistance fighter who was active underground . The location of the action is mainly Wallstrasse (today Zillestrasse ), a workers' street in Berlin-Charlottenburg .
Petersen wrote the book in secret and at risk of death, and smuggled it into a cake across the border to Prague. Attached to it is a list of the activists who died in Berlin-Charlottenburg.