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King Gentius
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(11/28/04 8:23 pm)
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What side were albanians on during WWII????
WITH THESE WRITINGS I OFFICIALLY PROTEST AGAINST THE SERB AND GREEK HISTORY VERSION WHO ARE HEAVILY BIASED AND MISLEADING. They only talk about "Balli Kombetar" and the SS Skanderbeg division who collaborated with the italians and germans. But then there was the anti-fascist and anti-nazi movement of communists, which was the strongest and prevailed. Albanian traitors who fought for the italians and germans were hunted down and killed like dogs, ok?However, this communist movement is kept in the dark by Serbs and Greeks. They give only the pieces of the history puzzle that encourage hatred among the balkan people.

Read the following sources that give u a better idea of the whole situation.

This is a excerpt from www.encyclopedia.com about the issue.

Secret treaties drafted during the war called for Albania's dismemberment, but Albanian resistance and the principle of self-determination as promoted by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson helped to restore an independent Albania. In 1920 the Congress of Lushnje reasserted Albanian independence. The early postwar years witnessed a struggle between conservative landlords led by Ahmed Zogu and Western-influenced liberals under Bishop Fan S. Noli. After Noli's forces seized power in 1924, Zogu fled to Yugoslavia, where he secured foreign support for an army to invade Albania. In 1925, Albania was proclaimed a republic under his presidency; in 1928 he became King Zog .

Italy, whose political and economic influence in Albania had steadily increased, invaded the country in 1939, forcing Zog into exile and bringing Albania under Italian hegemony. The Albanian puppet government declared war on the Allies in 1940; but resistance groups, notably the extreme leftist partisans under Enver Hoxha , waged guerrilla warfare against the occupying Axis armies. In 1943-44, a civil war also raged between the partisans and non-Communist forces within Albania. Albania was liberated from the Axis invaders without the aid of the Red Army or of direct Soviet military assistance, and received most of its war matériel from the Anglo-American command in Italy.

In late 1944, Hoxha's partisans seized most of Albania and formed a provisional government. The Communists held elections (Dec., 1945) with an unopposed slate of candidates and, in 1946, proclaimed Albania a republic with Hoxha as premier. From 1944 to 1948, Albania maintained close relations with Yugoslavia, which had helped to establish the Albanian Communist party. After Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia broke with Stalin , Albania became a satellite of the USSR. Albania's disapproval of de-Stalinization and of Soviet-Yugoslav rapprochement led in 1961 to a break between Moscow and Tiranë.

www.wikipedia.com is along the same lines.

After the First Balkan War, Albania declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912. The country was ruled by King Zog I until 1939 when it was occupied by Italy. The communists took over after World War II, in November 1944, under the leader of the resistence, Enver Hoxha.

www.eb.com
Encyclopedia Britannica online says that the democratic government of Fan Noli "was overthrown by an armed assault led by Zogu and aided by Yugoslavia. Zog signed a number of accords with Italy. These provided transitory financial relief to Albania, but they effected no basic change in its economy, especially under the conditions of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Italy, on the other hand, viewed Albania primarily as a bridgehead for military expansion into the Balkans. On April 7, 1939, Italy invaded and shortly after occupied the country. King Zog fled to Greece. "

It also says that "the various communist groups that had germinated in Zog's Albania merged in November 1941 to form the Albanian Communist Party and began to fight the occupiers as a unified resistance force. After a successful struggle against the fascists and two other resistance groups—the National Front (Balli Kombëtar) and the pro-Zog Legality Party (Legaliteti)—which contended for power with them, the communists seized control of the country on Nov. 29, 1944. "


Do not make history a tool for hatred and dirty politics. Be impartial.

King Gentius
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(11/28/04 10:08 pm)
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Re: What side were albanians on during WWII????
In some articles in www.fajtori.com i found some numbers on people killed in Albania during WWII.

Dead

6000-7000 Germans killed my Albanian communists.
6000 Italians killed by Greek army.
13,000 Italians dead by non-combat causes.
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26,5000 Axis Power dead.

Other Axis Power losses in Albania:
21,000 injured
21,000 POW (prisoners of war).

Albanian Losses.
28,000-30,000 dead albanian soldiers and civilians.
Other facts.
45,000 deserters from Italian army retrieved in Albania.

1,800 Jewish saved from Holocaust hid in Albania.

$1.5 Billion war damages.

www.albedu.net/ang/wmview.php?ArtID=5997
www.albedu.net/ang/wmview.php?ArtID=5839
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