[l8pilot]

In his book, A New Birth of Freedom, Harry Jaffa begins the second chapter with a quotation of Adolph Hitler taken from a book authored by Hermann Rauschning in which Hitler supposedly said that after the Southern states were conquered in America "the beginnings of a great new social order based on the principle of slavery and inequality were destroyed.

Harry Jaffa is one of the foremost Lincoln apologists. To be truthful, there is some doubt that Hitler ever said that, and it is possible that Harry Jaffa is wrong. However, the Lincoln apologists stand squarely on the side of Jaffa.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Yes, I know about the Rauschning quote, but I consider its provenance to be dubious enough that I didn't pull it out to bludgeon spacecowboy with and get into a "Hitler agreed with your side!" "No, HItler agreed with your side!" argument. Spacecowboy's claim though, was that Hitler had praised Lincoln in Mein Kampf and approved of his actions in consolidating the federal government, when the passage makes clear he didn't even mention Lincoln.