The author of Parmi les nazis is a young left-wing activist. Even if he didn't experience the fall of the Berlin Wall, he realises that the Nazis never disappeared from history. They are among us, we are among them. Jakob Springfeld rejects the reign of violence that is once again emerging in the West, which until now seemed to dream of freedom and democracy. Were these dreams just a mirage hiding a world obsessed with the market, growth and purchasing power? Today, the young man's parents even seem to harbour a kind of nostalgia for East Germany, before the fall of the wall, when it was communist. "Weren't we happier then, despite the harsher everyday life?"