Nazis? Again?

I suppose that it should come as no surprise that there are already two posts related to German neo-Nazi agitation on (in?) the blog. In this course, we're going to explore ethnic nationalism and its power to inspire terrible instability. Tony Judt writes that it is war, "not racism or ethnic antagonism or religious fervor" that results in atrocity and genocide, but I assert that all too often it is ethnic antagonism that inspires war, and that ethnic difference often serves as an easy means of dehumanizing the enemy.