The Washington Times
Letter to the editor April 18, 2008 Dear Editor: The article, Albania Marks the Holocaust by Warren L. Miller is a journalism disgrace. The Albanians were Nazi collaborators during the Holocaust and the SS Hanjar Division of 20,000 Muslims in the Balkans has a grotesque history during that period. A large photograph at the Imperial War Museum in London shows Heinrick Himmler, the architect of The Final Solution, inspecting this Balkan Nazi division that killed thousands of American troops while fighting in Italy. After the Americans broke through their lines the SS Hanjar's newest despicable task was to guard the railway links between the Balkans and Auschwitz. Albanian Nazis in Kosovo ruled the region under Benito Mousolini (sic)where they killed tens of thousands of Serbs and ethnically cleansed over 150,000—after the war, Tito forbade their return and gave their land to these Nazi collaborators. This ugly rewrite of history by Warren Miller shows an appalling ignorance of history and a total lack of research, or worse, the most blatant yellow journalism in modern communications. Shame of the Washington Times for this display of public brainwashing. In whose interest do you work so diligently, it certainly is not the truth? William Dorich Los Angeles, CA The writer is the author of 5 books on Balkan history including the 1992 book, Kosovo. Albania Marks the Holocaust: http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080418/COMMENTARY/802975838/1012
