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During the Holocaust, the Nazis and their allies imprisoned Jewish people in ghettos. Ghettos were a key means of isolating, controlling, and, ultimately, murdering millions of Jews. In total, the Nazis and their allies established more than 1,300 ghettos. Almost all of the ghettos were located in German-occupied Poland, the German-occupied Baltic states, and the occupied Soviet Union.
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