It is absurd to compare the Confederates to the Nazis.
1) The Confederacy did not wage aggressive wars against other countries. It fought a defensive war against Northern invasion.
2) The Confederacy was not a militarist state dedicated to bullying, brutal conquest of other peoples. The Lincoln government and the Northern Army were a much better fit for that.
3) It is true that Southerners were white supremacists, but so what? So were all whites in the 19th century, including Yankees. The South did not have a racist ideology like the Nazi Party. The South had a paternalistic attitude toward blacks that was a feature of everyday life. Radical ideologies of that time were to be found among officials of the Republican Party, and particularly among the Germans who immigrated into the North following the failed revolution of 1848-1849.
4) Except during the guerrilla war in Kansas-Missouri, the Confederates did not commit war crimes and acts of terrorism. The North committed countless war crimes and acts of terror against the South as a matter of deliberate military and political policy.
5) The Confederates did not operate death camps, nor imprison women and children, but the North did. Northern prisons held Confederate POWs and Southern civilians, including women and children, under brutal conditions, including deliberate mistreatment of the prisoners.
6) The Confederates did not impose a military occupation and oppressive tyranny on conquered people, nor did it economically exploit them, as the North did to the South.
It is absurd to compare the Confederates to the Nazis.
1) The Confederacy did not wage aggressive wars against other countries. It fought a defensive war against Northern invasion.
2) The Confederacy was not a militarist state dedicated to bullying, brutal conquest of other peoples. The Lincoln government and the Northern Army were a much better fit for that.
3) It is true that Southerners were white supremacists, but so what? So were all whites in the 19th century, including Yankees. The South did not have a racist ideology like the Nazi Party. The South had a paternalistic attitude toward blacks that was a feature of everyday life. Radical ideologies of that time were to be found among officials of the Republican Party, and particularly among the Germans who immigrated into the North following the failed revolution of 1848-1849.
4) Except during the guerrilla war in Kansas-Missouri, the Confederates did not commit war crimes and acts of terrorism. The North committed countless war crimes and acts of terror against the South as a matter of deliberate military and political policy.
5) The Confederates did not operate death camps, nor imprison women and children, but the North did. Northern prisons held Confederate POWs and Southern civilians, including women and children, under brutal conditions, including deliberate mistreatment of the prisoners.
6) The Confederates did not impose a military occupation and oppressive tyranny on conquered people, nor did it economically exploit them, as the North did to the South.