“…Albanian wartime leader, Xhafer Deva, also reached the United States. In a 1948 State Department memorandum, he is identified as the Minister of the Interior in the Nazi occupation ”who is held responsible by large numbers of Albanians for the Tirana massacres of Feb. 4, 1944, and other excesses committed by the Gestapo in collaboration with the Albanian gendarmarie.” He died in Palo Alto, Calif., in 1978….”
— New York Times June 20m 1982
“On 4 February 1944, police units subordinate to him massacred 86 residents of Tirana suspected of being anti-fascists. Deva was later involved in recruiting Kosovo Albanians to join the 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian).”
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