What is "aryanization"

Aryanization is a term coined during Nazism referring to the forced expulsion of so-called "non-Aryans", mainly Jews, from business life in Nazi Germany and the territories it controlled. It entailed the transfer of Jewish property into " Aryan" hands in order to "de-Jew the economy".

Literally, 'aryanization' means "to make Aryan". Fundamentally, the concept was based on the ideology of the " Aryan master race" which was to consider people of Europe Aryans through Germanisation.

The process started by depriving its victims of their wealth and ended with the Holocaust, when it deprived them of their remaining property and their lives.

Aryanization or Aryanisation may refer to:

• Indo-Aryanisation, a process of language change
• Indo-Aryan migration, a theory of population migration
• Aryanization (Nazism), the forced expulsion of so-called "non-Aryans", mainly Jews, from business life in Nazi Germany and the territories it controlled