Aryanization
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thumb|"Herzmansky is purely Aryan again!" – The Herzmansky department store in Vienna was confiscated in March 1938 after the [[Anschluss, which also took place that month.]] Aryanization () was the Nazi term for the seizure of property from Jews and its transfer to non-Jews, and the forced expulsion of Jews from economic life in Nazi Germany, Axis-aligned states, and their occupied territories. It entailed the transfer of Jewish property into "Aryan" or non-Jewish hands.
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- Germany
- Exclusion and dispossession of Jews starting in 1933
- After Kristallnacht
- Eviction, erasure and cultural appropriation
- Complicity in Aryanization
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- France
- Italy
- Romania
- Slovakia
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thumb|"Herzmansky is purely Aryan again!" – The Herzmansky department store in Vienna was confiscated in March 1938 after the [[Anschluss, which also took place that month.]] Aryanization () was the Nazi term for the seizure of property from Jews and its transfer to non-Jews, and the forced expulsion of Jews from economic life in Nazi Germany, Axis-aligned states, and their occupied territories. It entailed the transfer of Jewish property into "Aryan" or non-Jewish hands.
"Aryanization" is, according to Kreutzmüller and Zaltin in Dispossession: Plundering German Jewry, 1933–1953, "a Nazi slogan that was used to camouflage theft and its political consequences."
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