The diary of Hans Fallada written from within prison. 1944: In a cell of a Nazi prison, surrounded by psychopathic murderers and constantly under the watchful eye of the SS, Hans Fallada writes at the risk of his life about his memories of the twelve years of National Socialism.

Unlike other great writers, Fallada refused to leave Germany of the Third Reich because "he loved this people," who had become foreign to him. He had been forbidden to publish and had become addicted to drugs. In prison, he reconnects with his old self.

He writes at a frantic pace literary texts and, above all, records his experiences under National Socialism. These records are gathered and published for the first time in A Stranger in My Country, prison diary 1944. In its pages, he unleashes his hatred for the Nazis, describes people and events of the time, speaks of the hardships he endured, but also does not hide the compromises he was forced to make.