Twenty-first waffen – SS Brdska Division “Skenderbeg” (first half – November 1944) – a quisling military unit, formed by Albanians from Western Macedonia (Tetovo and Gostivar) and Kosovo (Pec, Pristina and Djakovica) and a third of the total Composition – Germans. Its formation filling and forming lasted by the end of June 1944, with a composition of a total of 15,000 gunmen, deployed in the first and second ss hilly and twenty-second SS artillery regiment. Command composition was exclusively from Germans. In occupying operations Draufgergeger (Andregregal operation, 18-26. Ⅶ 1944, in the valley of the rivery of R. When the German group armies “is” retreated through Kosovo and Metohija, the valleys of the r. Ibar and West Morava toward R. Drina, much of the Albanian martial composition deserted (October 1944). Due to the halved composition, the bibles of reorganization and the remnants of the unit and the German soldiers from the units in Greece, instead of the Division, was formed a fighting Polkovska Group “Skenderbeg” (24. 1940) from the UK. 8,000 soldiers (among which OK 3,000 Albanians), who participated in the fighting at Zvornik and Bielina. After members of the naval forces from Greece were returned to Germany (March 1945), the rest of only one battalion soldiers was connected to the seventh SS Brank Division “Prince Eugen”. S. Ml.
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