Albanians? Rescued Jews? Come one, give me a break...
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21st SS Division Skanderbeg was a Waffen SS Mountain division set up by Heinrich Himmler in March 1944, officially under the title of the 21st Waffen-Gebirgs Division der SS Skanderbeg (Albanische Nr. 1). It was named after George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, the national hero of Albanians who resisted Ottoman invasion for 25 years, and united Albanian princes under one national banner. The division was set up mostly from 4,000 prisoners of Albanian nationality. After the wars end, the division was accused of having committed thousands of war crimes, mostly against Serbs in Montenegro and Kosovo.
The names of 11,398 recruits were submitted to Berlin. Of these, 9,275 were deemed suitable for drafting, and 6,491 were actually drafted into the Waffen SS. The final division was formed up by the aforementioned recruits, another three hundred ethnic Albanians transferred from the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar and German and Austrian officers, NCOs and enlisted men. The final total strength of the division was 8,500 to 9,000 men, consisting of two infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, a reconnaissance battalion, a mountain combat engineer battalion, a signals battalion and an anti-tank battalion.
Alleged war crimes
Many of the allegations against the division must be looked upon with some measure of uncertainty, due to the ongoing ethnic hatred in the former Yugoslavian Balkan nations. However, there is evidence that many war crimes did in fact take place, and that those were committed by this division.
In particular, were the events that took place on July 28th, 1944, in the village of Velika, in Montenegro. The division was assisting the 7th Prinz Eugen Division during Operation Draufgegner. On that day, the Skanderbeg Division was alleged by witnesses to have murdered 428 Serbian civilians, 120 of which were children, in addition to burning some 300 houses. Many of those killed, many of which were young girls, were thrown into fires to burn alive. The division was also accused of having apprehended some 519 Kosovo Jews in Pristina, to be exterminated.
This division, together with the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) was a Muslim division of the Waffen-SS set up in cooperation with the Muslim equivalent of the pope Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, mufti of Jerusalem. They ethnically cleansed Kosovo of Jews and Christians.
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Wa...(1st_Albanian)
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Albanians are Islamo-fascists supported by Bin Laden and trained in Al-Qaeda terrorist camps.
Albanians were (chronologically): Turkish horse breeders, Hitler's little pawns, Stalin's servants and today they are Uncle Sam's "allies".
Albanians from Kosovo ethnically cleansed more than 250,000 non-Albanians: Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and others; desecrated more than 150 Christian churches and monasteries and killed thousands in cold blood.
Last edited by AmusedToDeath; 04-18-2008 at 05:34 PM.
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