The Albanian Skenderbeg Division as part of the SS Handschar was led by the Ustase, who were the vilest killers of WWII. The Ustase made the Bandera look outright friendly.
While the 1 st Albanian didn't kill the Jewish population on this scale in Albania, Mr. Netanyahu, their murder of Serbians was on a scale that for the country's population size almost dwarfs the Jewish Holocaust and the Polish combined. And they never answered for it. Thank you very much!
The Albanian Skenderbeg Division didn't kill Jews in Albania because of Hitler's orders (yes, it's bizarre as hell), but they made up for it across the rest of the Balkans!
"Before the Second World War, between 1,400,000 and 1,800,000 Jews lived in the Balkan states. During the wartime period of Nazi German control, between 750,000 and 950,000 of these people were killed." Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History- Lecture 19: The traditional regimes and the challenge of Nazism: Collaboration vs. resistance
Is Benjamin Netanyahu aware of all this? You can bet on it. The explanation is as simple as answering "why Israel never went after the rest of the CEE emigres or nations for reparations or justice because of their involvement in the Holocaust?"
Directly after WWII the US started pivoting into the Cold War and wanted dedicated political soldiers driving the debate back home and gathering intel on the new front. While the following quote specifically mentions the Baltic SS, it held true for the rest of the CEE Waffen SS soldiers. The fallout from this was almost 1 million +- Waffen SS and Axis soldiers emigrated to the US and started driving foreign policy after finding a political leader they could get behind in Senator Joseph McCarthy. Madison, Wilson, and East Central European Federalism -A Dissertation submitted to The Division of Research and Advanced Studies Of the University of Cincinnati 2006 by Jonathan H. Levy
" The text of the resolution of the United States Displaced Persons Commission stated that "the Baltic Waffen S.S. Units (Baltic Legions) are to be considered as separate and distinct in purpose, ideology, activities, and qualifications for membership from the German S.S. and therefore the Commission holds them not to be a movement hostile to the Government of the United States under Section 13 of the Displaced Persons Act, as amended" (Ezergailis, 2005: 64)." footnote 31 The Secret Nazi Network -Ieva Zake
The official Jewish view held up US policy to sweep the CEE crimes against humanity under the rug. This was made clear during the John Demanjuk trial.
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