Martin Luther, father of the protestant reformation. Not Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Preacher/civil rights activist.

You're misconstruing what the post is about. As with most soldiers of most wars. The reason a soldier fights is up to the individual. Now more often then not why they're fighting comes down to whatever propaganda is being shoved down their throats. This post isn't an attack on the confederate soldiers but a confrontation on their belief of it being a justified war.

What did they fight and die for then?

Alsace-Lorraine is French. Elsass-Lothrigen is the German name for the same region. We refer to it as Alsace-Lorraine therefore it is French.

Can you elaborate on that? Slavery was a contentious issue even amongst the colonial governments before the US existed. As far as I can find at the onset of the US there were 5 free states and 8 slave states.

So long as you were a full blooded german you had the right to own and/or operate private property. If you were a Jew or any other minority your rights were revoked. Once again this was true until the war necessitated the state run the economy. As happened in all of the waring nations incurring the US.

Considering private properties and private for profit enterprise was encouraged under the Nazi regime until it was untenable due to war constraints says you're wrong.

Honestly Eisenhower, as far as modern presidents go, was a decent one. I always look back to his final speech as president where he talks about the military-industrial complex and the direction he saw the country going in.

Becuase it's all in context. No one says that hitler was great in general but to acknowledge that Hitler was a great orator isn't controversial.

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