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In reply to the discussion: Nazi war hero. Confederate war hero. [View all]Hippo_Tron
(25,453 posts)In order for someone to be a war hero, you need a society that worships them as such. The German people regard the Nazis as a god awful horrendous mistake of their past, to the point that it's illegal to deny the holocaust. That came about because we occupied their country for decades and re-shaped their society into believing that. It also probably helped that in West Germany, they were glad to have us there with the ever present Soviet threat right next door.
In the case of the Confederacy, the fact of the matter is that we didn't have the stomach to occupy the south for decades and re-shape their society by brute force. We left after a decade and let them go back to their old ways and pretty much vindicated their old beliefs. The Confederacy no longer exists as a government and a nation, but the sentiment that led to its creation is still very much around.