Was Hitler Inspired by Lincoln’s Army? . . . .

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"The individual states of the American union . . .  could not have possessed any state sovereignty of their own," wrote Hitler, paraphrasing Lincoln.  He did this to make his own case for the abolition of states' rights or federalism in Germany and the creation of a centralized, monopolistic state.

The arguments in favor of states' rights that were being made in Germany, wrote Hitler, were "propagated by the Jews" and should therefore be dismissed.  "The mischief of individual federated states . . . must cease," the dictator bellowed.  "A rule basic for us National Socialists," Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, "is derived: A powerful national Reich."  The only real difference between this statement and Lincoln's theory of the American union is that Hitler referred to a "national Reich" whereas Lincoln, ever the master of slick political rhetoric, called the same thing "the mystic chords of union."
-Thomas DiLorenzo

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/thomas-dilorenzo/was-hitler-inspired-by-lincolns-army/