http://serbianna.com/blogs/savich/?p=25
Carl Savich
Kosovo: Honoring Nazis and the SS
<http://serbianna.com/blogs/savich/?p=25>
November 10th, 2006
UN negotiator on Kosovo Martti Ahtisaari wanted to honor and commemorate
Finnish Nazi SS troops in 1999 when he was the President of Finland. He
wanted to have the Finnish taxpayers and the Finnish government fund and
finance the construction of a plaque in the Ukraine to commemorate the
deaths of Finnish Nazi SS troops killed during Operation Barbarossa.
Ahtisaari is not, alone, however, in seeking to honor and celebrate the
legacy of Nazis and the SS.
Kosovo Albanians have similarly honored and commemorated the legacy of
Nazis and the SS. Kosovo Albanians have named a high school in Pec
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=bedri+pejani+gymnasium> and a
street in Prishtina
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bedri+pejani+street> after Nazi
Albanian ultra-nationalist Bedri Pejani. The Pec high school
<http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:qBXkyjK2vkEJ:siteresources.worldbank.org/INTLED/Resources/339650-1122490529659/Peja_e.pdf+bedri+pejani+gymnasium&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=8>
or
secondary school, known as Gymnasium “Bedri Pejani”
<http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://external.cache.el-mundo.net/1999/09/30/fotos/0930ultima.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.elmundo.es/1999/09/30/ultima/index.html&h=128&w=190&sz=11&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=NIqBQwVlMOiDRM:&tbnh=69&tbnw=103&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbedri%2Bpejani%2B%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG>,
consisted
of 58 classes, 1,766 students, and 115 teachers. In Prishtina, a street
has been renamed “Bedri Pejani Street”
<http://www.icced.info/NUIGDiploma.php>. In the Kosovo town of Vucitrn
<http://www.kosovoelections.org/eng/pfdf/branches.aspx?pcode=109>, a
street has been named “Rr. Bedri Pejani”. “Rr.” is the abbreviation for
“Rruga”, Albanian or Shqip for “street”. This is outrageous because it
is right under the noses of the “international community”. Indeed, the
Kosovo Albanians are thumbing their noses at the international
community. Hypocritically using a Holocaust propaganda paradigm against
Serbs while openly honoring and celebrating Nazis who helped kill Jews
during the Holocaust. The moral hypocrisy is appalling.
Who was Bedri Pejani?
Bedri Pejani was the Kosovo Albanian president of the Albanian Second
League of Prizren <http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/016.shtml>,
set up by Nazi Germany in 1943, whose goal was to create a Greater
Albania under Nazi German sponsorship
<http://www.kosovo.net/skenderbeyss.html>. Pejani was a Nazi
collaborator under the Nazi regime established by Germany in 1943.
Pejani wrote Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler, the “architect of
genocide”, a letter on March 19, 1944, in which he requested that
Himmler organize Albanian military formations as part of the Nazi Waffen
SS <http://www.rastko.org.yu/kosovo/istorija/savic_skenderbeyss1.html>.
In his letter to Himmler, Pejani wrote:
Excellency,
the central committee of the Second Albanian League of Prizren has
authorized me to inform you that only your excellency is united with the
Second Albanian League, that you should form this army, which will be
able to safeguard the borders of Kosovo and liberate the surrounding
regions. …
…. Bedri Pejani
Hans Lammers sent Bedri Pejani’s letter to Himmler. Himmler received the
letter and wrote Lammers back about the planned formation of two Kosovar
Albanian Muslim SS Divisions:
Most respected party friend Lammers! I received your letter of April 29
together with the letter of the president of the central committee of
the Second Albanian League of Prizren.At this time one Albanian division
is being formed. As things now stand, I plan to form a second division,
and afterwards an Albanian corps will be formed. …
Heil Hitler!
Yours very faithfully,
H. Himmler
Himmler would form the Albanian Kosovar Muslim 21st Armed Mountain
Division of the SS “Skanderbeg”, Albanische No. 1
<http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/054.shtml>. The war ended
before Himmler could form a second Kosovo Albanian Muslim Waffen SS
Division. The first task of Bedri Pejani’s Skanderbeg Nazi SS Division,
made up primarily of Kosovo Albanian Muslims, was to round up the Jews
of Kosovo <http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/060.shtml>, who were
subsequently transported to the Nazi concentration camp at
Bergen-Belsen, where they were gassed.
It takes unprecedented gall and arrogance to honor Nazis and the SS
while simultaneously accusing the very people you plan to exterminate
and dispossess of their territory as Nazis themselves. What Kosovo
Albanians rely upon to achieve this deception is the ignorance and
stupidity of “the international community”.
PHOTO 1: A rare photo of Kosovo Albanian Muslim Bedri Pejani
<http://www.lajmet.com/28Nentori/images/Komiteti-Kosove.gif> wearing
Ottoman Turkish fez, second row from the top, seated seventh on the
right. This photo shows the Albanian Committee of Kosovo in 1919-1920 in
front of an Albanian national flag. Pejani and the Kosovo Committee
sought to annex Kosovo to a Greater Albania. When Germany occupied
Kosovo-Metohija in 1943, Pejani became a major Nazi collaborator. Pejani
personally requested from Heinrich Himmler that Kosovo Albanian Muslims
be allowed to join the Nazi Waffen SS.
PHOTO 2: A Kosovo Albanian teacher gives the Nazi “Heil Hitler!” salute
<http://www.armymuseum.ru/images/ruscorp/3r12.jpg> as she escorts Kosovo
Albanian schoolchildren before the Nazi German occupation forces in
Kosovska Mitrovica, 1942.
