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Robert Elsie
Texts and Documents of Albanian History
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1944
Prisoners of the Nazis in KosovoKosovo and Albania were occupied by German forces for about a year during the Second World War (ca. September 1943-October 1944). The following four documents dating from August 1944 are “transport lists” of individuals arrested by the Nazi regime in Kosovo, with the assistance of the local SS Skanderbeg Division, and detained at a holding camp (Anhaltelager) in Prishtina for further transport, no doubt to the Reich. The 789 victims include Serbs, Albanians, Bosniaks and Jews. Their fate is unknown.
Anti-communist fighters in Albania under German command, autumn 1943.Holding Camp Pristina | O.U., 14 August 1944
Re. List of First Prisoner Transport to the Reich
Ref. Div. letter of 9 August 1944
to the
Armed Mountain SS Skanderbeg Division Ic
of birth
of residence
arrested
P[ristina?]
code name “Stalin”
detained in forest
for three days
for Rustem Sadria
of the Wehrmacht
Can Bega
Can Bega
who had contact with
2 communist brothers
in the forest
with armed bands
and spreads it
/signed/
SS Oberscharführer
Holding Camp Pristina | O.U., 16 August 1944
Re. List of Second Prisoner Transport to the Reich
Ref. Div. letter of 9 August 1944
to the
Armed Mountain SS Skanderbeg Division Ic
of birth
of residence
arrested
She tried to buy ammunition from the troops and was detained with ammunition and equipment on her.
the Waffen SS
created difficulties for his successor, making it impossible for him
to lead the battalion./signed/
SS Oberscharführer
Holding Camp Pristina | O.U., 16 August 1944
Re. List of Third Prisoner Transport to the Reich
Ref. Div. letter of 9 August 1944
to the
Armed Mountain SS Skanderbeg Division Ic
of birth
of residence
arrested
two sons
brother Pero who was
a communist agent/signed/
SS Oberscharführer
Armed Mountain SS Skanderbeg Division Ic
Holding Camp Pristina | O.U., 9 August 1944TRANSPORT LIST
for the Fourth Transport of Communists to the Reich
of birth
of residence
arrested
/…/evic
238Kosta Pesic--Gjilanfarmer15.4.43transferred as a communist from an Albanian prisonAddition:
No. 56 was taken off the list because he was not transportable.238 prisoners (men and women)
accepted: delivered:
SS Unterscharführer SS Oberscharführer
/signed/ /signed/
[Translated from the German by Robert Elsie.]
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