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Chapter 845: Austrian Order Division Number Six: George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, 1st Albanian

Recruited mainly from the Catholic Christian Minority in Albania, the Austrian Division Number Six, also known as George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, or 1st Albanian was formed to aid in the occupation of former Yugoslavia, as well as Serbia and Albania itself. Created out of a battalion of ethnic Albanians that had experience in fighting Yugoslav Partisans in Eastern Bosnia, as a mountaineer Division and composing mainly out of ethnic Albanians as well as Yugoslav Germans (ethnic Germans) as officers and commanders, the Skanderbeg Division was named after medieval Albanian lord George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, who defended the region of Albania against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades in the 15th century. In a similar manner it was now intended to be used against Mohammedan Partisans in Albania and Bosnia, as well as Orthodox Partisans in Serbia, as the Austrian Empire, the Untied States of Austria had plans to create a homogeneous, Catholic Empire spanning the Balkan Peninsula. Not reaching full divisional strength and comprising only of 6,500 soldiers at first until 1944, they were engaged in a series of deportations and ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia and Albania alike. This atrocities included murdering, raping and looting alike, especially against Mohammedan Bosniaks, Orthodox Serbs and Mohammedan Albanians, were they operated in combat areas against Partisans to aid the Axis Central Powers war effort. This anti-Partisan operations often included more operations against local civilians then against true partisans and would later also be extended onto the territory of occupied Montenegro in May 1944. After this operation they would act as a guard force of the local chromium mines of Kosovo. Reinforced by nearby Austrian Navy forces after their last losses against local partisans (nearly 500 Albanians had died). With this fresh forces they aided the Austrian and Hungarian Army in suppressing the local Partisans and also aided local nationalist and fascist and groups that wished to ethnic and religiously cleans the regions of Bosniak, Serbs, Albanians, Mohammedans and Orthodox people alike to create a more heterogeneous Catholic Christian and Catholic Culture dominated Austrian Empire for Vienna or their own local ambitions.

Commanded by August Schmidhuber, the Division would comity various war crimes, including the direct targeting of Mohammedan Mosques and Orthodox Churches, which they blew up claiming local Partisans used them as bases of operations and were hiding inside. Later most of these places would be rebuild by the Austrian Empire as Catholic Churches to aid in the spreading of Catholicism in the Balkan region. As part of this operations the Division would also accompany the deportation of many of the local ethnic and religious groups further east, south and southeast in the Balkans during the Second Great War. After the Second Great War they would even further expel some of these groups, mainly the Mohammedans into the Ottoman Empire and the Orthodox people towards the Russian Empire. It was something the Ottoman Empire did as well, as they deportee the Christian Armenians northwards towards Russia as well in exchange for the Russian Empire deporting their own Mohammedans from the Caucasus and partly even Central Asia towards the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire or even Afghanistan and China. Clearly all involved Axis Central Powers partaking in such deportations and ethnic cleansing officially called it relocating and anti-partisan fighting and many outside of the Axis Central Powers, even in the Allies simply had to few information to know what was truly going on, at least the true scale of it during and after the Second Great War, as there were some rumors at least. Despite their War Crimes however the Austrian Empire and some Catholic Churches and Cathedrals in the Balkans would honor them for what they had done against enemies of the Empire during the Second Great War, including the creation of statues and honorable orders and titles for these members of the Austrian Order. It would take about 70 to 80 years in some places if these war crimes were talked about, let alone sorted out and even some of this statues and war memorials removed later on once the more liberal and local ethnic population within the United States of Austria would change how some of the things planned or done in the Second Great War were viewed by later coming generations. In other places of the Austrian Empire however, worship and honoring of some these war criminals remained strong and uncontroversial for the locals, especial in these regions were people only lived or were a minority now because of their deportation and cleansing operations.

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Chapter 845: Austrian Order Division Number Six: George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, 1st Albanian

Recruited mainly from the Catholic Christian Minority in Albania, the Austrian Division Number Six, also known as George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, or 1st Albanian was formed to aid in the occupation of former Yugoslavia, as well as Serbia and Albania itself. Created out of a battalion of ethnic Albanians that had experience in fighting Yugoslav Partisans in Eastern Bosnia, as a mountaineer Division and composing mainly out of ethnic Albanians as well as Yugoslav Germans (ethnic Germans) as officers and commanders, the Skanderbeg Division was named after medieval Albanian lord George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, who defended the region of Albania against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades in the 15th century. In a similar manner it was now intended to be used against Mohammedan Partisans in Albania and Bosnia, as well as Orthodox Partisans in Serbia, as the Austrian Empire, the Untied States of Austria had plans to create a homogeneous, Catholic Empire spanning the Balkan Peninsula. Not reaching full divisional strength and comprising only of 6,500 soldiers at first until 1944, they were engaged in a series of deportations and ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia and Albania alike. This atrocities included murdering, raping and looting alike, especially against Mohammedan Bosniaks, Orthodox Serbs and Mohammedan Albanians, were they operated in combat areas against Partisans to aid the Axis Central Powers war effort. This anti-Partisan operations often included more operations against local civilians then against true partisans and would later also be extended onto the territory of occupied Montenegro in May 1944. After this operation they would act as a guard force of the local chromium mines of Kosovo. Reinforced by nearby Austrian Navy forces after their last losses against local partisans (nearly 500 Albanians had died). With this fresh forces they aided the Austrian and Hungarian Army in suppressing the local Partisans and also aided local nationalist and fascist and groups that wished to ethnic and religiously cleans the regions of Bosniak, Serbs, Albanians, Mohammedans and Orthodox people alike to create a more heterogeneous Catholic Christian and Catholic Culture dominated Austrian Empire for Vienna or their own local ambitions.

Commanded by August Schmidhuber, the Division would comity various war crimes, including the direct targeting of Mohammedan Mosques and Orthodox Churches, which they blew up claiming local Partisans used them as bases of operations and were hiding inside. Later most of these places would be rebuild by the Austrian Empire as Catholic Churches to aid in the spreading of Catholicism in the Balkan region. As part of this operations the Division would also accompany the deportation of many of the local ethnic and religious groups further east, south and southeast in the Balkans during the Second Great War. After the Second Great War they would even further expel some of these groups, mainly the Mohammedans into the Ottoman Empire and the Orthodox people towards the Russian Empire. It was something the Ottoman Empire did as well, as they deportee the Christian Armenians northwards towards Russia as well in exchange for the Russian Empire deporting their own Mohammedans from the Caucasus and partly even Central Asia towards the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire or even Afghanistan and China. Clearly all involved Axis Central Powers partaking in such deportations and ethnic cleansing officially called it relocating and anti-partisan fighting and many outside of the Axis Central Powers, even in the Allies simply had to few information to know what was truly going on, at least the true scale of it during and after the Second Great War, as there were some rumors at least. Despite their War Crimes however the Austrian Empire and some Catholic Churches and Cathedrals in the Balkans would honor them for what they had done against enemies of the Empire during the Second Great War, including the creation of statues and honorable orders and titles for these members of the Austrian Order. It would take about 70 to 80 years in some places if these war crimes were talked about, let alone sorted out and even some of this statues and war memorials removed later on once the more liberal and local ethnic population within the United States of Austria would change how some of the things planned or done in the Second Great War were viewed by later coming generations. In other places of the Austrian Empire however, worship and honoring of some these war criminals remained strong and uncontroversial for the locals, especial in these regions were people only lived or were a minority now because of their deportation and cleansing operations.