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Loki
07-20-2009, 08:15 PM
21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Waffen_Mountain_Division_of_the_SS_Skanderbeg _(1st_Albanian))

The 21st SS Division Skanderbeg was a Waffen SS Mountain division set up by Heinrich Himmler in March 1944, officially under the title of the 21st Waffen-Gebirgs Division der SS Skanderbeg (Albanische Nr. 1). It was named after George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, the national hero of Albanians who resisted Ottoman invasion for 25 years.

More information:

http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=1927

http://www.waffen-ss.no/Bilder/handschar.jpg

http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/054_files/z7.jpg

http://www.rastko.rs/kosovo/istorija/ccsavich-propaganda/005.jpg

http://www.kosovo.net/nazikos3.jpg

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Jarl
07-20-2009, 09:19 PM
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/054_files/z7.jpg

That bloke on the right looks quite unusual.


The division was operational for a few months (February 1944 – November 1944), with a strength of about 6,000 - 6,500 rather than the normal strength of a division (10,000-20,0000). Given that most of the recruits deserted, it was declared a failure and disbanded. By October 1944, their number had dwindled to 3500, they refused to fight or to take orders, and it never became a significant force. [2]

Looks like they didn't have much commitment ;)
Goidelic
07-20-2009, 09:27 PM
That bloke on the right looks quite unusual.



Looks like they didn't have much commitment ;)

I agree maybe it's the photograph? The right one looks like a pseudo-Octoroon, and the one on the left looks European, could pass for a Romanian, Greek or Serb in my opinion.
Loyalist
07-20-2009, 09:29 PM
Cannon fodder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon_fodder).
Jarl
07-20-2009, 09:32 PM
I agree maybe it's the photograph? The right one looks like a pseudo-Octoroon, and the one on the left looks European, could pass for a Romanian, Greek or Serb in my opinion.

The right one looks somewhat Sudanese to me.
Goidelic
07-20-2009, 09:34 PM
The right one looks somewhat Sudanese to me.

Yeah, he looks like being 1/8th Sudanese. Maybe he's a very rare Albanian who was part Gypsy? Gypsy's are known to have admixture, that looks pseudo-Negro.
Jarl
07-20-2009, 09:39 PM
Yeah, he looks like being 1/8th Sudanese. Maybe he's a very rare Albanian who was part Gypsy? Gypsy's are known to have admixture, that looks pseudo-Negro.

Hell knows what he is... I once read a XIX/XX century anthro brochure about very unusual and extremely sporadic occurence of woollen-like afro hair among people of full European descent, inhabiting Carpathians.

Although with that guy it's not just his hair, but his overall looks.
Osweo
07-20-2009, 09:48 PM
The infamous 'Albanian on the Right' doesn't look in the slightest out of the ordinary to me. If anything, he reminds me of a pure English friend of mine, and also of a Hutsul man I know. Can would-be Anthro-authorities restrict their efforts to decent clear modern photographs rather than waste their, and my, time on old sepia prints, please?

'Woolly hair', 'Pseudo-Octoroons'... :suomut:
Jarl
07-20-2009, 09:57 PM
The infamous 'Albanian on the Right' doesn't look in the slightest out of the ordinary to me. If anything, he reminds me of a pure English friend of mine, and also of a Hutsul man I know. Can would-be Anthro-authorities restrict their efforts to decent clear modern photographs rather than waste their, and my, time on old sepia prints, please?

Pure, huh? Did you check his pedigrees? I'd put some good old calipers to use if I were you.. def something's fishy...


'Woolly hair', 'Pseudo-Octoroons'... :suomut:

Ah, you never know with these terrible "swarthy" people! ;)