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The German occupation of Albania occurred between 1943 and 1944 during World War II. Before the armistice between Italy and the Allied armed forces on 8 September 1943, Albania had been in a de jure personal union with and was de facto under the control of the Kingdom of Italy .
Map of Albania during World War II. In Albania, World War II began with its invasion by Italy in April 1939. Fascist Italy set up Albania as its protectorate or puppet state. The resistance was largely carried out by Communist groups against the Italian (until 1943) and then German occupation in Albania. At first independent, the Communist ...
German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
Italian Albania; Nazi Germany (From 1943) German Albania; Balli Kombëtar (From 1943) Second League of Prizren (From 1943) Albanian Communist Victory. Liberation of Albania from Axis occupation. Balli Kombëtar defeated. Albania becomes a Communist state. Albanian Civil War (1943-1944) LANÇ Supported by: United Kingdom Yugoslav Partisans ...
Ukraine captured a chunk of the Russian border region of Kursk after a daring cross-border attack in August. They have held onto some of that territory ever since, though advancing Russian forces ...
The Eastern Front was a theatre of World War II which primarily involved combat between the nations and allies of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.Combat in the Eastern Front began with the two powers remaining peaceful towards each other, with the annexation of countries such as Albania and portions of Poland by Germany and its allies, and the annexation of Finland and the rest of Poland by ...
German invasion of Albania, 1943. On September 10, 1943, German troops initiated acts of violence against Italian troops, including the forcible disarmament of Italian officers and soldiers on the streets of Tirana. They also seized military machinery and occupied various warehouses and garrisons belonging to the Royal Army.
Germany: Occupation of Byelorussia: No Ukraine: Occupation of Ukraine: Baltic states: Occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (de jure independent, de facto under Soviet rule) Parts of European Russia: Eastern Front: Eastern Karelia Finland: Continuation War: No Guam: 1941–1944 United States Japan: Occupation of Guam: No Transnistria ...