Who were the Nazis?

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The War Between the States:  Who were the Nazis?

Here is a Massachusetts colonel of the Union army writing to his sympathetic governor in the midst of the war:

The thing we seek is permanent dominion:  and what instance is there of permanent dominion without  changing,  revolutionizing and absorbing  the institutions, life and manners of the conquered  peoples?  They think we mean to take their slaves.  Bah!  We must take their ports, their mines, their water power, the very soil they plow.

This is a far more typical expression  of what the Confederate soldier was against than pleas for "racial equality."   Who are the best candidates for the Nazi label in the War Between the States?
-Clyde Wilson

Read on:
https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/the-war-between-the-states-who-were-the-nazis/