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I am researching the history of the Albanian people from all eras and unpublished documents from various archives, have fun.
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🇩🇪🇦🇱 Greetings from two Albanian soldiers from the Bundeswehr
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Photograph of Albanian students from Kosovo performing the Roman Salute on the steps of the Altare della Patria, Rome, 1941.
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Albanian volunteers from Medvegja in the Wehrmacht, 1944. 🇦🇱🇩🇪
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The story of how Albanians came to Joan of Arc's aid during the Siege of Orléans (1428-1429) 🏴🇳🇱⚔️🇫🇷🏴. After the siege was successfully lifted, the brave Albanian warriors made Orléans their new home and even had a street in Orléans called "Rue Des Albanais" named after them
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Colourized portrait of Albanian Nazi Volunteer Officer, Ahmet Demneri, 1943-44
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Mussolini inaugurates monument of Albanian National Hero Skanderbeg, 27th October 1940, Piazza Albania square, Rome, Italy.
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Mussolini embracing an Albanian who is seen dressed in traditional clothing.
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Kostandin Shpataraku
[1736-1767] was an Albanian Orthodox icon and fresco painter of the Post-Byzantine period in the eighteenth century. He is regarded as one of the most prominent figures of medieval Albanian art.
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SS Officer August Meyszner In Prishtina With Albanian Fascist youth and Members of SS Skanderbeg 1944.
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Photograph of an Albanian Avant-Gardist, Durrës, 1940.
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"One day I turned on the radio and listened to the demonstrations in Belgrade with shouts of 'bolje grob nego rob' (better grave than slave). I got up and prayed to God in a loud voice: 'Give them the Grave and Slave'. And God and the Germans gave them both
Xhafer Deva.
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Depiction of an Albanian Stratioti Cavalryman from The Vinkhuijzen collection of military uniforms Dated Between The Years 1515-50. 🇦🇱🇮🇹
"Republica di Venezia, Cavalleria stradiott"
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In this photo from the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, we see the arvanitas Spiro Luisi offering Adolf Hitler an olive branch and greeting him as a man of peace.
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Mussolini inaugurates monument of Albanian National Hero Skanderbeg, 27th October 1940, Piazza Albania square, Rome, Italy.
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🇮🇪🇦🇱 The IRA is training members of the Albanian National Army for "terrorist" attacks against Belgrade, Pancevo and Nis.
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A thanks to the Führer.
Mehdi Frasheri gave his Thanks to the Führer for the Assistance given by the german reich To the Albanian People.
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A more elaborate representation of the Battle, based on Ottoman sources, attributes to the Albanian leaders Balsha, Jonima and Muzaka an organized Albanian contingent as numerous as one-fourth of the entire Balkan coalition.
- The Battle of Kosovo 1389: An Albanian Epic
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🇦🇱 Albanian fascist youths on a ride with the bicycles
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In this photo with Albanian Children, is seen Admiral Karl Dönitz, a Great German admiral and briefly Hitlers successor as head of state in May 1945.
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German generals togheter with
Albanian Mayor of Pazari i Ri Aqif Blyta visiting Albanian schools, Sanxhak (1944)
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Xhafer Deva Giving a Speech Behind Two Paintings (Gjergi Kastrioti on The Left, Ismail Qemali on The Right)
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the Japanese scholar Kazuhiko Yamamoto has concluded that the basic ethical concepts of the stateless social structure of the Homeric Age — 'faith', 'honor', 'blood', 'revenge', 'food', and 'guest' — are the same customary concepts of the Albanian tribal society.
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Pro-Axis Albanian Vulnetari mountaineer fighter posing with an MP40, 1943.
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Albanian volunteer in the 22. SS-Freiwilligen-Kavallerie-Division
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🌍: If you Albanians are not practicing your religion, what are you doing?
🇦🇱:
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Vehbi Frasheri declared that the Greater Albanian State was non-confessional and all religions enjoyed equal standing within its borders. The Albanians' religion was Albanianism, i.e., love of their homeland, not Christianity or Islam.
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German Wehrmacht soldier with a group of Albanians, 1944.
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The Albanian Kanun of Lek Dukagjini:
Albanian tribal law, codified in the 15th century, and written down as a complete text by Shtjefën Gjeçovi in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Over six thousand Albanian volunteers made up the 21st SS Division Skanderbeg. This division was a Waffen-SS 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)
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Operation "Easter Egg". Exhausted Albanians, members of the I Battalion, 28th Regiment, 13th SS Division, march back to their base after heavy, but successful fighting against units of the Partisan XVI Vojvodina Division.
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Early 1960's British magazine called Knowledge, displaying races ( Albanian man is displayed as Dinaric )
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SS Skanderbeg with captured Yugoslav Partisans, Operation Draufgänger, 1944.
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In 1448 the Albanian League of Lezha, led by Skanderbeg, razes & plunders the territories of George Brankovic.
This action was a retaliation against the Serbs for obstructing Skanderbeg's passage to the Second Battle of Kosovo, where he was to aid Hunyadi against the Ottomans.
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Heroic Albanian soldier faces alone the attack of Partisans, 1943, by Illustrazione Del Popolo
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"Hitler, who had great sympathy for this small and romantic country in Southern Europe, was very pleased with the conclusion of the talks for the formation of the Albanian government".
—Hermann Neubacher.
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I see that God does not listen to sinners, but listens to the godly man who does his will.
Elbasan Gospel Manuscript, Page 57 & 58
Gregory of Durrès - 1760
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Croatian President Franjo Tudman reportedly mourned the loss of Berisha, claiming he was "a one man army, that Croatia and Kosovo would be eternally proud of".
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Gjon Buzuku complained that many Albanians were more concerned with pagan folk traditions than with Catholic rituals.
1499 - 1577 †
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Scanderbeg concludes his letter by directly mentioning the Gods and this offers a new indication of the pagan worldview animating him:
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Haki Taha, an albanian nationalist and anticommunist teacher from Gjakova, killed the serbian founder of the "albanian" communist party, miladin popovic, in Prishtina.
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The Illyrian festival "Buzmi Bujar"
The festival "Buzmi Bujar" or "festa e buzmit" is still celebrated by the Catholic Albanians every year on December 24th at Christmas.
The Illyrian festival "Buzmi Bujar"
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@zemerrush
Muhammad Ali (4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849) was the Ottoman Albanian governor and de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule, he controlled Egypt, SUDAN, Hejaz, Najd, the Levant, Crete and parts of Greece.
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🇦🇱 Fascist Lictor Youth girls speaking for Radio Tirana ( colourized )
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"MY ALBANIAN SOUAD LEADER, NAZIR HODIC, TOOK FIVE OF HIS MEN AND STORMED A PARTISAN POSITION IN THE HILLS. THEY OVERRAN THE KNOLL, KILLS SEVERAL OF THE ENEMY WITHOUT INCURRING ANY FRIENDLY LOSSES"
- RUDI SOMMERER
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Oath ceremony of the National Albanian Army, Tirana 1943.
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«Peace can be maintained by force, but it does not make a nation. To protect the nation, the idea is needed, which ignites people and blood collectively»
— Ismet Toto
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Lieutenant Jacomoni talking to a young Albanian boy whilst visiting one of many public work projects, 1942.
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Xhafer Deva ( standing on a table ) speaking in front of Albanian Ballists recruited to fight on the side of the Nazis.
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Architectonic and urbanistic projects of Tirana of fascist and futuristic inspiration, from the 1939-1940.
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Anton Harapi was an Albanian Franciscan friar, educator, lecturer, publicist, and political figure during World War II. In the first years of the communist regime in Albania, he was executed by communist bandits for collaborating with the Axis powers.
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Rauf Fico (1881-1944) was an Albanian diplomat and politician. As ambassador he served in Yugoslavia, Greece and finally Germany. In Germany his reputation garnered admiration by Hitler whom it is quoted to have said that "(Rauf) Fico is a great diplomat from a small country."
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Operation "Daredevil". A veterinarian of the 14th Regiment, SS Division "Prinz Eugen", in conversation with an elderly Albanian, a member of volunteer militia, at the end of the operation (near the Cakor Pass). Standing in the background are two Albanian SS men.
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Albanian Fascists Go on Fighting.
The Germans surrendered in 1945, but the remnants of the Kosovo Albanian Nazi and fascist groups continued fighting the Yugoslav government for six years, with a major rebellion from 1945 to 1948 in the Drenica region.
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🧵The former KLA fighter also places the military support of the Germans in the current Kosovo war in this tradition. He refers to a shared history of painful but brotherly experience:
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One of the many photos that reveal the truth of the collaborationism of albanian communists with the yugoslavian only to gain political power and overthrow the legitimate laws and order of the state, persecuting their own people. 1944.
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US CIA file on WW2 Albanian, Xhafer Deva:
"...[Nazi] Germany proclaimed & created a Greater Albania...It was because of the Germans that he became the Albanian Minister of the Interior..."
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Photograph of a member of the Albanian Fascist Militia.
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@ibnKhalid_
Albania is a very dangerous country for tourists, especially for those who come from the third world (Arabs etc.) Albania is mega dangerous and criminal, if you get there you will come back with only your underpants on, I myself was a tourist I’m Arabian/African, very dangerous.
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Albanian Fascist, Family reunion, after a month away from their families, the young Albanians were finally reunited with their parents, they had been away at Fascist summer camp.
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Colourized portrait of a soldier of the Albanian Fascist Militia who was involved in the medical services.
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Albanian 21st SS Skanderberg Division & German 7th SS Prinz Eugen Divison
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@dgv1133
This account is a history channel and not for children, comment one more childish comment and you will be banned.
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Scenes from the years 1939-1942, from the day of reforestation, when the school youth planted 300 trees in Tirana and Korça.
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Photograph of Xhafer Deva (left) whilst in exile in the USA following axis defeat in WW2 (colourized)
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An Albanian mother with her two 'blackshirt' sons (1940).
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🇦🇱 youth girls employed in bottling drinks for troops at the front.
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Albanians & German Wehrmacht Soldiers group photo, 1944.
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🇦🇱 Fascist Youth Girls roller skating ( colourized )
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SS-Ostuf. Carl Rachor wrote in a September 14, 1943 letter that:
the enlisted men, particularly the Albanians, shall become outstanding soldiers.
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🧵German-Albanian Cultural
Relations 🇩🇪🇦🇱
The promotion of cultural relations between Germany and Albania was a particularly enticing field because of the close ties the two countries had enjoyed from before the Italian period.
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Albanian fransciscan Anton Harapi talking with a German comrade.
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Picture of an Albanian auxiliary policeman ( Hilfspolizei ).
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«Himmler's most important source was the astonishing "Cicero" - the Albanian second valet to the British ambassador in Ankara […]»
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Neubacher writes: "Berlin insisted that independence be respected in Albania, according to personal initiatives.
führer wanted to appoint me to Albania, which would be independent on its own initiative and in this regard.
The memoirs of Hermann Neubacher.
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Commanders of the first partisan brigades of Albania and "Macedonia". 1944. Albanian communists during ww2 often collaborate with serbians, macedonians,montenegrins and greeks against their own people and their own country, only in order to gain political power.
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The arrival of the German army welcomed by the albanian people of Tregu i Ri( Novi Pazar) in the northwestern albanian region of Sanxhaku. 1943.
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Photographs of Skender Kadriu from Presheva, dedicated Nationalist who stood against Turks & Serbs alike, he also harboured strong anti-communist ideals & was a supporter of the Axis powers. He became an Officer of the Albanian Gendarmerie.
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