Flashback: Harvard Historian Defends The Nazis- William L. Langer's Apology For Inhumanity

Flashback to March 1936. Harvard historian William L. Langer defends the Nazis. Historian Stephen H. Norwood describes the pronounced pro-Nazi feeling (page 41) :

Almost a year and a half later, in March of 1936, one of Harvard's leading professors, William L. Langer, a renowned authority on the World War, vigorously defended Nazi Germany's recent occupation of the Rhineland and disputed the charge that Hitler was a militarist.

Just a reminder, you can't get more Establishment than William L. Langer. He was chairman of the history department at Harvard.