Nazi apologists dominant in Germany?

The former part is right. The slavery happened along the way, but was never as extensive as it was in the South, nor a core aim of imperial expansion. At least AFAIK. Theirs also a the fact that being conscripted into forced labour during a war is less morally repulsive(at least to me, and I expect to most people) then permanent plantation slavery.

Anyway your initial point was that the Japanese empire was worse then the CSA. Nothing you've said has justified that assertion.


Difference is that the CSA existe at a time when slavery was only in the process of being generally accepted as wrong. The Axis powers, OTOH, revived it after the Western world had abandoned it for generations.

Thus, no one bar a few pedants thinks any the worse of George Washington for having been a slaveholder, as in his time it was still a perfectly normal thing to be. Even Jefferson Davis gets a pass, since while opinion most places was hardening against the institution, that attitude hadn't yet reached the society he grew up in. In Hitler's day, by contrast, it had been dead and gone for over half a century (much longer in Europe), so he and his Jap allies were deliberately reviving something that civilisation had consciously rejected. Needless to say, any US President today found using slave labour on his ranch would get no sympathy at all, and rightly so, as he would be sinning against firmly established lights.

Ditto with torture. Iirc, one of the Stauffenberg conspirators responded to a comparison of Hitler with Frederick the Great by saying "Yes; the first abolished torture, the second reintroduced it".
 
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Slaughter of civilians by soldiers contrary to official policy<starting a civil war to guarantee that almost half your population remains enslaved. At the very worst those war crimes were a means to an end for the Japanese government, whereas slavery was the end for the CSA.

Also, the CSA states had, in living memory, engaged in similar or worse war crimes against Native Americans(as had many Northern states).

In 1860 there were close to four million slaves in the United States. During World War II about four to ten million Javanese people were forced into labour by the Japanese. And that was just in Indonesia. Millions in China were enslaved as well.

Furthermore, the removal of restrictions on the treatment of Chinese POWs was approved by Hirohito.

And let's not forget the fact that anywhere from 20,000 to 410,000 women were forced into sex slavery.

Add to it the horror-shows like Unit 731, the mass murder of millions of innocent men, women, and children, and the use of chemical weapons, and you have a power that is completely beyond comparison to the Confederacy. A million people died in the ACW. The Japanese military went way beyond that in the numbers that they murdered, enslaved, raped, and eviscerated.

But this is totally off-topic...
 
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