In the early 1960s , Birmingham was one of the most racially divided cities in the United States , both as enforced Action by law and culturally .

The Germans justified Justifying these genocides Killing on the basis of Nazi racial theory , which regarded Poles and other Slavic peoples as racially inferior `` Untermenschen '' and depicted Create_artwork Jews as a constant threat Warning .

By 1942 , the Nazi Germans were implementing their plan Arranging to kill Killing every Jew in German-occupied Europe , and had also developed Creating plans Arranging to eliminate Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the Polish people through mass murder Killing , ethnic cleansing , enslavement and extermination through labor , and assimilation into German identity of a small minority of Poles deemed Coming_to_believe racially valuable .

During World War II , the Germans not only murdered Killing millions of Poles ( Jewish and otherwise ) , but ethnically cleansed Emptying millions more through forced Hostile_encounter deportation to make room for “ racially superior ” German settlers ( see Generalplan Ost and Lebensraum ) .

These extremely large death Death tolls , and the absence Presence of substantial non-Jewish civilian deaths Death in `` racially superior '' occupied European countries such as Denmark and France , attest to Germany 's genocidal policies directed Aiming against the Poles .

The Torreón massacre ( , ) was a racially motivated massacre that took place Process_start on 13–15 May 1911 in the Mexican city of Torreón , Coahuila .

The race difference led Causation many to believe that the shooting Use_firearm was racially motivated Influence , generating Creating a widespread controversy .

The public 's perception of a racially tinged motivation for the killings Killing and fear of further violence Violence led to Causation a steep decline Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in tourism to St. Croix , from which the island 's tourism Traveling industry did not begin Process_start to recover Recovering until decades later .