Would you be so kind as to change the title, which is ambiguous now I come to read it again, rather than misleading, to something like

  Tolkien verbally pistol-whips Nazi publisher who wanted
  proof of Tolkien's Aryan ancestry before publishing `The 
  Hobbit`.

The thing that worries me, and that Tolkien conceded, is that these were probably not bad people, just people obeying the law. Problem was they were not good people, willing to disobey the law.