Col. Kalsi wonders why we permit monuments to the Confederate losers, since we and our allies never permitted anybody to build monuments to Nazi leaders.  The answer to this is simply that they were two very different historical contexts.  In the 19th century, virtually no white Americans considered Negroes their actual equals.  But many opposed slavery on moral grounds, and on the grounds that the country could not go on being half-slave, half-free.  But the slavery issue was not the focus and motivation of the men fighting. Their motivation was sectional.  The chivalry still taken seriously in military culture at that time required respect for one's enemy, and even friendship after the war ended.  None of these cultural factors were in play in occupied Germany.  We did not regard the defeated enemy as honorable and, as total victors, we claimed the prerogative of reestablishing a different political culture in place of Nazism.