Clarence Crawford, thanks for your thoughtful reflection.  But there is neither connection nor meaningful historical similarity between the Confederacy and the Third Reich. 

The Confederacy was rooted in an 18th century seigneurial society, agricultural in economy and aristocratic in organization.  Such societies from Moscow to Sicily to Jamaica to New Orleans regarded owning, or controlling, human labor for their land as a foundation stone of human society.  But otherwise, the ethical and religious values of the Confederacy were just those of standard low-church Protestantism. Nazism, on the other hand, is rooted in a confluence of racialism, socialism, and militarism. It would not have existed without an urban proletariat, which the Confederacy lacked.  Nazism disdains all aristocracies and regards the party's monopoly on force as the only ethical and legal arbiter.  Where the Confederacy was purely defensive, the Nazi state, like the party, was inherently extremely aggressive.