Severin hated Nazism and, even more than that, he hated the Nazis who had changed their outward masks after the Second World War but still clung to the evil ideology in their hearts. There were a lot of them and they occupied higher positions than anyone could imagine. Stieg listened and learned. There weren’t that many little kids in inland northern Sweden who were interested in politics, and a lot of them soon began to think he was precocious.
