The most serious book about the Napoleon obsession was born in a German concentration camp. Early in 1940, the Dutch historian Pieter Geyl wrote an essay on how Bonaparte had been seen by successive generations of French historians and sent it off to a journal for publication. After the German invasion in May, although he had “not written a single word about Hitler”, the piece was returned to him by an editor nervous at implied parallels.
關於對拿破崙的癡迷最嚴肅的一本書誕生於一個德國集中營。1940年初，荷蘭歷史學家彼特•蓋爾(Pieter Geyl)寫了一篇關於波拿巴如何被法國歷史學家的後續世代所看待的文章，並將其投稿給一家期刊發表。在5月的德國入侵後，儘管他「沒有寫過一句關於希特勒的字」，這篇文章被一位擔心春秋筆法的編輯退回給了他。
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