Millions of Jews lived in Eastern Europe. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, more than two million Polish Jews remained under German control. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, several million more Jews remained under their dominion. The Germans aimed to control this considerable Jewish population by forcing them to reside in marked sections of towns and cities that the Germans called "ghettos" or "Jewish residential neighborhoods." In total, the Germans created at least 1,000 ghettos in occupied territories. The largest ghetto was in Warsaw, the Polish capital, where almost half a million Jews were confined.
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