Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The process of Aryanizing or the state of having been made Aryan in character, appearance, etc.

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Examples

  • A new exhibition opening at a museum in central Germany highlights the Nazis' drive to force Jews from cultural and business life, known as "aryanization."

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • A new exhibition opening at a museum in central Germany highlights the Nazis' drive to force Jews from cultural and business life, known as "aryanization."

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter 2011

  • Any fair account of the responsibility/coercion of ordinary Germans in the 1930s has to take some account of the program called "aryanization," under which non-Jews came into ownership of all of the tens of thousands of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.

    Is That Legal?: "Aryanization" and the Question of German "Coercion" 2006

  • Any fair account of the responsibility/coercion of ordinary Germans in the 1930s has to take some account of the program called "aryanization," under which non-Jews came into ownership of all of the tens of thousands of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.

    Is That Legal?: Holocaust Archives 2006

  • But on the point we've been discussing -- the degree to which the Nazi Germany of the 1930s was just a "ring of criminals" terrorizing and coercing an innocent Volk, I think the example of "aryanization" shows a broader and more voluntary participation in the oppression of the Jews than any of the pope's comments have implied.

    Is That Legal?: Holocaust Archives 2006

  • But on the point we've been discussing -- the degree to which the Nazi Germany of the 1930s was just a "ring of criminals" terrorizing and coercing an innocent Volk, I think the example of "aryanization" shows a broader and more voluntary participation in the oppression of the Jews than any of the pope's comments have implied.

    Is That Legal?: "Aryanization" and the Question of German "Coercion" 2006

  • The film - which insists that many Germans knew their Jewish neighbors would disappear forever - was inspired by the work of German historian Wolfgang Dressen, who about ten years ago illegally photocopied archival files that documented the process of "aryanization" of Jewish property.

    JTA - Recent News 2009

  • ... on the point we've been discussing -- the degree to which the Nazi Germany of the 1930s was just a "ring of criminals" terrorizing and coercing an innocent Volk, I think the example of "aryanization" shows a broader and more voluntary participation in the oppression of the Jews than any of the pope's comments have implied.

    Is That Legal?: "Aryanization" and the Question of German "Coercion" 2006

  • DTL Exhibit focuses on Nazis'"aryanization" program

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter 2011

  • I was always repulsed, almost instinctively, though I'm sure in reality the Civil Rights Movement somehow influenced me on this, by the aryanization of Jesus, and the bizarre attempts to separate him from the Jewish people of his day.

    Kasama 2009

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