Government agencies at all levels aimed to exclude Jews from the economic sphere of
Germany by preventing them from earning a living. Jews were required to register their
domestic and foreign property and assets, a prelude to the gradual expropriation 17 of their
material wealth by the state. Likewise, the German authorities intended to "Aryanize" all
Jewish businesses, a process involving the dismissal of Jewish workers and managers, as
well as the transfer of companies and enterprises to non-Jewish Germans, who bought them
at prices officially fixed well below market value. From April 1933 to April 1938,
"Aryanization" effectively reduced the number of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany by
approximately two-thirds.
1936
