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GCSE History · key term
The Nazi policy of transferring Jewish-owned businesses into non-Jewish ownership, including through confiscation.
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Paper 3
Revise: Persecution of MinoritiesLate-1938 regulations sanctioned Aryanisation, including the confiscation of Jewish businesses. Legal exclusion increasingly exposed people to the loss of their property as well as their rights.
Paper 3
The forced transfer of Jewish-owned businesses to non-Jewish ownership, often at prices far below their market value.
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Through Aryanisation, Jewish-owned businesses were transferred to non-Jewish owners at officially fixed prices far below their value. By spring 1939, most Jewish-owned businesses in Germany had passed into non-Jewish hands. Their former owners lost both property and the means of earning a living.