Klooga, Estonia
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During the German occupation in World War II, Klooga concentration camp, a Nazi labor camp, was situated there as a satellite camp of Vaivara concentration camp. On 19 September 1944, about 2,000 inmates of the Klooga camp were executed and the corpses burned on pyres.
A large area of the settlement is covered by Estonian Defence Forces' military training field Klooga training area.
Klooga has rail stations Klooga and Klooga-Aedlinn on the Elron western route.
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Klooga railway station
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Former Soviet Army buildings
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Grave of Holocaust victims at Klooga cemetery
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