  The unusual class of magnetized nonthermal radio filaments (NTF), threads and
streaks with their unique physical characteristics are found only within the
inner couple of degrees of the Galactic center. Also, a number of young,
mass-losing and rare stellar clusters are recognized to lie in the Galactic
center region. The latter characteristic of the Galactic center region is used
to explain the origin of the nonthermal radio filaments. We consider a
mechanism in which the collective winds of massive WR and OB stars within a
dense stellar environment produce shock waves that can accelerate particles to
relativistic energies. This mechanism is an extension of a model originally
proposed by Rosner and Bodo (1996), who suggested that energetic nonthermal
particles are produced in a terminal shock of mass-losing stars. The
large-scale distribution of the magnetic field in the context of this model is
argued to have neither poloidal geometry nor pervasive throughout the Galactic
center region.
