You opened the can I didn't, CD. LOL!!
Well here we go, I'm sure Walt will show up soon and tpaine I'm suprised at you personally. Never thought of you as a Hamiltonian(Federalist)
Nazi Germany--destruction of an entire group of people, namely the Jews, all in the name of racial purity. Quite a sick motive actually and had never been done on that scale. Hitler was a tyrant on a scale never seen. To compare Jefferson Davis to Hitler we'd need to see some proof of extermination plans, or relocation of the slaves for a purpose to 'cleanse' the nation. No the only one who was even idiotic enough to suggest relocation was lincoln, not Davis
Communist Soviet Union--5 year plans, doing it for the people, and again mass killings? No sorry no Southern values there
Perhaps we could try Japan. Let's see an Emperor who was not voted on, did things on his whim and not the peoples', attacked land to get raw materials that he couldn't get for free anywhere else? Well, sounds more like the northern Tyrant but again not like Jeff Davis.
No the South was a land that did have slavery(constitutionally), was being raped in taxes(unconstitutionally), educated the slaves(Stonewall Jackson, Jeff Davis) for emancipation that most knew was coming over the course of time, and acted much as the state of Massachussetts during the war of 1812 and the state of Texas several times before by exercising their right to secede peacefully. The attack on Sumter was because lincoln broke promises given, and here in the South a promise is a promise. Sure there were some states that used slavery as the issue in the declarations of secession, but hey it was a Constitutional right up until that time. Much nicer than the northern states that refused to even house blacks(Illinois 1853, Oregon constitution 1859) or educate them(Vermont 1836)
We can pull out the statements from lincoln and pull out the statements from Davis. Sure racism was rampant, but it was not the cause of the War. The South wanted her freedom and lincoln chose not to give it. Not one of those mentioned along with the South was fighting for freedom. They were fighting for world domination and for destruction of land and people. Much like lincoln and sherman