racial

racial
   displaying prejudice against or hostility towards an ethnic group
   Originally, referring to humanity in its entirety, as when Dr Marie Stopes was president of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress. The Nazis adopted and fostered a nascent tendency to intolerance, with their doctrines of the Nordic German master race, their spurious racial science, and their racial purity, for which to qualify it was necessary to prove that there was no gypsy, Jew, or Slav among your ancestors since 1750. That led to racial purification, the killing of Gypsies and Jews especially, but also of other mentally ill and physically deformed Germans:
    [By 1940 the SS] had already done sterling work in matters of racial purification. (Keneally, 1982)
   The 1941 German invasion of Russia was, for the Nazis, a racial war.
   The idea of rassenkampf, or 'race war', gave the Russian campaign its unprecedented character. (Beevor, 1998)

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