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.
关于对拿破仑的痴迷最严肃的一本书诞生于一个德国集中营。1940年初，荷兰历史学家皮特•盖尔(Pieter Geyl)写了一篇关于波拿巴如何被法国历史学家的后续世代所看待的文章，并将其投稿给一家期刊发表。在5月的德国入侵后，尽管他“没有写过一句关于希特勒的字”，这篇文章被一位担心春秋笔法的编辑退回给了他。
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