Leaders, citizens, same shit different day. They were allowed to mourn their dead, and their dead were remembered as Americans. Misguided Americans, but still Americans. it's why they weren't executed as traitors right after the completion of the war.
You don't get to decide that over the people that actually fought them and bled due to them, you fucking SJW twat.
Nazis were doing what they were doing when everyone recognized what they were doing was wrong.
Slavery was still not seen as universally wrong by the world when we got rid of it.
And the right to revolt against what someone sees as an oppresive government is a natural human right.