Tote bei Bootsunglück nach Klosterbesuch – schwangere Frau und Tochter unter Opfern
Ein
Klosterbesuch in Montenegro nimmt ein tragisches Ende: Bei einem
Bootsunglück sterben mindestens vier Menschen – darunter auch ein
Familienvater, seine schwangere Frau und deren gemeinsame Tochter (12).
Ein Ausflugsboot auf dem Skutarisee in Montenegro. (Archivfoto)
Quelle: picture alliance / imageBROKER
Vranjina
Eine
Bootstour zu einem Kloster in Montenegro hat ein tragisches Ende
genommen. Vier Menschen sollen ertrunken sein, nachdem das Boot am
Sonntag bei hohem Wellengang im Skutarisee gekentert war. Es hätte die
Gruppe von Gläubigen vom orthodoxen Kloster auf der Insel Vranjina zum
Festland bringen sollen. Bei den Opfern handelte es sich um einen Mann,
seine schwangere Frau, ihre zwölfjährige Tochter sowie einen weiteren
Mann.
Nach drei Menschen wurde am Montag immer noch gesucht,
berichtete das montenegrinische Fernsehen RTCG auf seiner Webseite. Die
Überlebenschancen waren sehr gering. Fünf Menschen in dem Boot, unter
ihnen der Mönch aus dem Kloster, der es gesteuert hatte, überlebten das
Unglück. Einer der Überlebenden berichtete, dass zuerst das Mädchen im
Wasser verloren gegangen und ertrunken sei. Die drei Erwachsenen
verschwanden in den Fluten, nachdem sie nacheinander vergebens versucht
hatten, die anderen zu retten.
Trotz schlechten Wetters Bootstour unternommen?
Die
Polizei nahm anschließend den aus Serbien stammenden Mönch fest, der
das Unglücksboot gesteuert hatte. Die Behörden werfen ihm vor, sich
trotz des schlechten Wetters auf die Bootsfahrt eingelassen zu haben.
Den Medienberichten zufolge handelte sich bei den Passagieren um
Gläubige, die regelmäßig an den Sonntagsandachten im Kloster Vranjina
teilnehmen.
Der 48 Kilometer lange und 14 Kilometer breite
Skutarisee (andere Bezeichung: Shkodrasee) ist das größte Binnengewässer
des Balkans. Er liegt zwischen Montenegro, zu dem zwei Drittel gehören,
und Albanien. Das Kloster auf der im See gelegenen Insel Vranjina
stammt aus dem 13. Jahrhundert. Von RND/dpa
Bei einer Kreuzfahrt können Sie die reich gegliederte Küste mit
zahlreichen Buchten, kleinen Inseln und Halbinseln genießen. Das
sumpfige Ufer bedeckt ein breiter Schilfstreifen, die Seeoberfläche ist
mit einem Teppich aus Sumpfpflanzen bedeckt, unter denen die gelbe und
weiße Kastanie vorherrscht, und die Pflanze "Kasoranja" besonders
interessant ist. Der südliche Teil ist steinig und hütet noch
Waldrelikte voller Wildkastanien. Als bedeutender Standort der Wasservögel wurde der Skutarisee mit der
Ramsar-Konvention 1996 in die Weltliste der Sümpfe von internationaler
Bedeutung eingetragen. Die Vogelfreunde können hier ihr Hobby
vollständig genießen – 270 Arten Vögel sind hier heimisch, von denen
leider viele gefährdet oder seltener geworden sind. Ds Wahrzeichen des
Skutarisees ist der Krauskopfpelikan. Im See leben an die vierzig Arten
Fische, von denen die autochthonen Karpfen und Ukelei am ineressantesten
sind. Erwähnenswert ist auch, dass hier auch einige Meerfische leben –
Aale, Mugil cephalus, Alosa fallax nilotica. Die Jäger und Fischer sind
hier häufige Besucher während der Jagd- bzw. Fischfangsaison. Im Skutari-See-Becken standen einst etwa zwanzig Klosterbauwerke, so
dass diese Region "Zetska Sveta Gora" (Der Heilige Berg von Zeta)
genannt wurde. Lesendro und andere Festungen zeugen von hier geführten
Kämpfen zwischen Montenegrinern und Türken. Die Klöster, Kirchen,
Festungen und Sakraldenkmäler erinnern unmittelbar an alte Herrscher,
wie Balsici und Crnojevici. Inseln Die zahlreichen Inseln sind interessant als wahres Vogelparadies und
als kulturgeschichtliche Denkmäler, die von der einstigen Bedeutung
dieser Gegend zeugen. Die Insel Vranjina ist eine malerische Fischersiedlung. Hier steht
das St.-Nikolaus-Kloster. Neulich hat es Vater Nikola, der zehn Jahre
der Schatzmeister im orthodoxen Kloster Hylandar in Griechenland war,
mit eigenen Händen erneuert. Die Töchter des Königs Nikola verbrachten
häufig den Sommer im Klosterlogis, das sich auf der Insel befand und
jetzt zerstört ist. Die kleine Insel Grmozur wird "montengrinisches Alkatraz" genannt. Es
ist ein Inselchen mit den Überresten einer türkischen Festung, die dem
montenegrinischen König Nikola als Gefängnis für politische Gegner,
ausschließlich Nichtschwimmer, diente. Grmozur ist auch ein
"Vogelinsel". Auf der Insel Starcevo befindet sich eine rekonstruierte Kirche aus
dem XI Jahrhundert, das erneuerte Logis und das Grab des ersten Druckers
kyrillischer Bücher, Bozidar Vukovic-Podgoricanin. Krajinski arhipelag ist eine Reihe von etwa fünfzig Inseln und Felsen entlang dem südwestlichen Seeufer. Golubovo ostrvo ist der größte Nistplatz der Silbermöwen in
Montengro. Dass Meeresvögel auf einer Süßwasserinsel nisten, ist eine
Seltenheit. Die Möwen werden am besten vom Boot aus beobachtet. Sowohl
die Nester, als auch die Vögel dürfen aufgenommen werden, nur dass dabei
nicht die Eier vernichtet werden sollten, da Möwen eine geschützte
Tierart sind. Auf der Insel Beska steht eine Kirche – Stiftung von Jelena Balsic,
der einstigen Herrscherin dieses Gebietes. Mit etwas Glück können Sie
auf dieser Insel wilde Taubenscharen oder ein Paar kleiner Eulen – Käuze
– beobachten. Eine Viertelstunde Seefahrt südöstlich von der Möweninsel und Sie
kommen zur Reiherinsel. Die Insel ist als Omerova gorica bekannt. Unter
den Lorbeerbäumen hat sich eine Kolonie von etwa 40 Nestern der
Fischreiher niedergelassen. In den siebziger Jahre wurde sie als die
einzige bekannte Reiherkolonie auf den Lorberbäumen beschrieben. In den
letzten Jahre gesellen sich zu den Fischreihern auch kleine Seidenreiher
. Die Reiher sind eine gefährdete Art , so dass die Eier erhalten
bleiben sollen. Die Inselbesichtigung beende man am besten mit einem Halt am
Muric-Strand. Er ist der einzige Sandstrand am See, der in seiner
Schönheit hinter den schönsten Adriastränden nicht zurücksteht. Am
Strand steht eine kleines Lokal, wo Sie sich nach der angenehmen
Schwimmerermüdung den Seekarpfen schmecken lassen können. Bei
einheimischen Fischern können Sie am Strand ein Boot mieten, um die
"Vogelinseln" zu besuchen. Wenn Sie auf lange Seefahrten keinen Wert
legen, können Sie den Strand auch über Land erreichen.
An den Seeufern liegt die einstige Thronstadt des montenegrinischen
mittelalterlichen Staates, Rijeka Crnojevica. Dieser kleine, malerische
Fischerort stellt damals eine starkes Handelszentrum dar. Die
montenegrinischen Herrscher genossen hier das wohltuende Klima, hier
wurde der erste kyrillische Buch im slawischen Süden gedruckt. Einen
großen Reichtum dieser Region stellten die "komunice", die sich an
zahlreichen und sehr fischreichen Seeaugen befanden. Vor den
Balkankriegen war Rijeka voller Manufakturbetriebe und gerade hier wurde
die erste Apotheke in Montenegro sowie der erste Waffenbetrieb
eröffnet. In der "Fabrik Marica" wurden Perlen aus Fischgräten
hergestelt. http://monteinfo.com/skadarsko.htm
Wer der Joint Venture Partner ist, liegt im Dunkel, also ein Ortsbekannter Verbrecher, was normal ist auch bei VW; Audi, Porsche, Mercedes Partnern im Balkan. Klingt Alles auch den normalen KfW, EU Betrug auch der Italienischen Mafia, wo man ebenso viele solcher Projekte hatte, der Nghradeta und die Deutschen arbeiten nicht Anders. Wohl mit überteurten Machbarkeits Studien, ein reines Betrugs Projekt, wie es die KfW und Co. BER Flugplatz, Stuttgart 21 ja anzeigte, es Weltweit von Kriminellen aus dem Auswärtigem Amte, KfW, BMZ organisiert hat, welche Hunderte Tarn Consults im Mafiösen Reigen betreibt.
Die dubiose Mutter Firma, in 2007, in NRW gegründet, erinnert an viele Betrugs Joint Venture, Betrugs Projekte der Deutschen, wo es nur um Bauschrott in Betrug geht.
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German-Kosovo JV to invest 169 mln euro in wind power project - govt
Wind turbines. Image by: BP plc (www.bp.com).
PRISTINA (Kosovo), January 28 (SeeNews) –
German-Kosovo joint venture SOWI Kosovo plans to invest some 169 million
euro ($193 million) to install 30 wind turbines with a total capacity
of 105 megawatts in the northern
Sein Vermögen wurde beschlagnahmt von über 1 Milliarde €, Vito Nicastri hat Haus Arrest.
In Albanien, wurde nie etwas investiert, denn es ging ja auch um die Unterschlagung von EU Geldern:
Rückblick vor 10 Jahren: "The biggest wind farm in Europe:
With a total generating capacity of 500 megawatts, MW, the project will potentially be the biggest onshore wind farm in Europe, Moncada announced in May 2008.
The project will include the construction of a transmission line running from the port of Vlora in Albania to the Italian port of Brindisi. A 400kV power cable, stretching 145km under the Adriatic at a depth of over 900 metres, will allow electricity to be transmitted in either direction. The interconnection line and the wind farm have an estimated cost of 1.25 billion euros. Construction is expected to start in 2010."
Als "Herr des Windes" ist Vito Nicastri in Sizilien bekannt, doch auf den Konten des Unternehmers mit Mafia-Verbindungen herrscht nach einer Razzia wohl erst einmal Flaute: Die Behörden beschlagnahmten Vermögenswerte in Höhe von 1,3 Milliarden Euro.
Als "Herr des Windes" ist Vito Nicastri in Sizilien bekannt, doch auf den Konten des Unternehmers mit Verbindungen zur Mafia herrscht nach einer rekordverdächtigen Razzia wohl erst einmal Flaute. Vermögenswerte in Höhe von 1,3 Milliarden Euro seien endgültig konfisziert worden, teilte die italienische Polizei mit. Sie beschlagnahmte unter anderem 43 komplette Firmen, dutzende Villen, Grundstücke und Bankkonten sowie mehrere Fahrzeuge. Der Geschäftsmann habe im Handel mit erneuerbaren Energien Kasse gemacht.
Die über mehrere italienische Regionen verstreuten Vermögenswerte waren schon im September 2010 vorläufig beschlagnahmt worden, doch erst jetzt wurde das volle Ausmaß bekannt und der persönliche Besitz Nicastris durch einen Gerichtsbeschluss endgültig unter Staatsverwaltung gestellt. Der 57-Jährige hat nach Erkenntnissen des Kriminalamts zur Bekämpfung der Mafia (DIA) erfolgreich Geschäfte mit erneuerbaren Energien aus Wind- und Solaranlagen betrieben und steht im Verdacht, der Mafia so bei der Geldwäsche geholfen zu haben. Der Wirtschaftszweig wird in Italien häufig zur Geldwäsche missbraucht.
Darüber hinaus soll Nicastri enge Verbindungen zum Chef der sizilianischen Mafia Cosa Nostra, Matteo Messina Denaro, pflegen. Die Beschlagnahme des Eigentums des "Herr der Winde" mache dem obersten Mafioso Siziliens "das Leben sicherlich schwieriger", sagte DIA-Chef Arturo de Felice. Der Unternehmer selbst wurde für drei Jahre unter Hausarrest an seinem Wohnsitz in der Ortschaft Alcamo gestellt. Seine Vermögenswerte unterstünden jetzt einem Justizverwalter, sagte Felice. Einnahmen daraus kämen dem Staat zugute.
Freuen dürfen sich aber auch die Ermittler: Sie können Felice zufolge nun Kommissariate in Nicastris Villen einrichten und seine Autos für Dienstfahrten benutzen. http://www.wochenblatt.de/9,171098
The head of the Italian anti-mafia agency, Arturo de Felice, gives a press conference in Rome on April 3, 2013 after Italian police said they had seized assets worth 1.3 billion euros (1.7 billion US dollars) from a Sicilian renewable energy developer in the biggest ever seizure of mafia-linked assets. (GABRIEL BOUYS/
ROME -- Italian police have seized a record (EURO)1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) in cash and property from a single person, a Sicilian alternative energy entrepreneur alleged to have close ties to the Mafia.
Italy's anti-Mafia investigators said in a statement Wednesday that Vito Nicastri, a 57-year-old native of Alcamo, near Trapani, was placed under surveillance and must remain in Alcamo for three years. He is accused of declaring for tax purposes a fraction of the value of his businesses.
Italian media have dubbed Nicastri the "king of alternative energy" for his vast holdings in wind farms and photovoltaic cell companies.
Police said the seizures include 43 companies; 98 pieces of real estate including buildings, homes, stores and land; 66 bank accounts, credit cards and investment funds.
Das in der Antike als “Tor zur Unterwelt” bekannte Cap Karaburun (bei Vlore und der Insel Sazan), soll durch illegale Statements und Staats Aktionen, bei Bruch Internationaler Vereinbarungen und ratifizierter Abkommen in einen angeblichen Windpark umgewandelt werden, was eines der sattsam bekannten Methoden des gigantischen Grundstücks Diebstahles ist und der Geldwäsche über Ferien Haus Immobilien.
Karaburun
In Wirklichkeit handelt es sich um ein Mafiöses Immobilien Projekt, denn die Firma “Moncada Costruzioni” plant ein Netzwerk von Strassen im National Park von Karaburun, um dort hohe Geldsummen zu waschen und über den Immobilien Verkauf reich zu werden und Italienische und Albanische Politiker, über die sattsam bekannten Geldwäsche Banken in Zypern zu bedienen und zu beteiligen.
Das Albanische Mafia System kann jeder leicht erkennen, denn über 400.000 Immobilien wurden auf gestohlenen Grundstücken gebaut und am liebsten entlang der Strassen, Wasser- und Strom Leitungen.
Deshalb gilt, was dieser Artikel sehr gut beschreibt, das man mit derartigen dubiosen Projekten in Wirklichkeit über Tausend Hektar Natur Park in die Mafiösen Immobilien Geschäfte der “Politiker",( wobei man in Albanien ja genügend Erfahrung hat mit der Sizilianischen Mafia hat) umwandeln will.
Der Chef der Sizilianer Firma aus Agrigent im Interview in 2006!
Und was er selbst ausführt, über die Sizilianische Mafia etc.
Across the island in Agrigento, industrialist Salvatore Moncada described himself as proof businessmen can stand up to mobsters.
He has repeatedly refused demands made of his 180-employee company, Moncada Costruzioni Srl, Italy’s fifth-largest producer of wind energy. In one case, Moncada’s testimony helped jail a mobster who demanded $7,500.
At one point, Moncada wore a wire to a meeting with a mobster. “I was sweating a little bit,” he recalled. But no threats were made and the gangster wasn’t arrested.
http://www.katu.com/news/national/13766102.html
Trotzdem muss man sich fragen, woher er 2,6 Milliarden € hat und überhaupt seine durchaus bekannte Firma, welche Nr. 5 ist im Windpark Geschäft in Italien.
Moncada Costruzioni
municipality of Mitrovica, Kosovo's
government said on Monday.
The project is now being reviewed by the government, Kosovo’s prime
minister Ramush Haradinaj said in a press release after the government
declared the joint venture as the first strategic company under a new
law in Kosovo.
“Delighted to see SOWI project on wind renewable energy being
implemented with a total of 169 million euro,” Haradinaj said in a
Twitter post.
($ = 0.87655 euro)
Sein Vermögen wurde beschlagnahmt von über 1 Milliarde €, Vito Nicastri hat Haus Arrest.
In Albanien, wurde nie etwas investiert, denn es ging ja auch um die Unterschlagung von EU Geldern:
Rückblick vor 10 Jahren:
"The biggest wind farm in Europe:
With a total generating capacity of 500 megawatts, MW, the project will potentially be the biggest onshore wind farm in Europe, Moncada announced in May 2008.
The project will include the construction of a transmission line running from the port of Vlora in Albania to the Italian port of Brindisi. A 400kV power cable, stretching 145km under the Adriatic at a depth of over 900 metres, will allow electricity to be transmitted in either direction. The interconnection line and the wind farm have an estimated cost of 1.25 billion euros. Construction is expected to start in 2010."
Als "Herr des Windes" ist Vito Nicastri in Sizilien bekannt, doch auf den Konten des Unternehmers mit Mafia-Verbindungen herrscht nach einer Razzia wohl erst einmal Flaute: Die Behörden beschlagnahmten Vermögenswerte in Höhe von 1,3 Milliarden Euro.
Als "Herr des Windes" ist Vito Nicastri in Sizilien bekannt, doch auf den Konten des Unternehmers mit Verbindungen zur Mafia herrscht nach einer rekordverdächtigen Razzia wohl erst einmal Flaute. Vermögenswerte in Höhe von 1,3 Milliarden Euro seien endgültig konfisziert worden, teilte die italienische Polizei mit. Sie beschlagnahmte unter anderem 43 komplette Firmen, dutzende Villen, Grundstücke und Bankkonten sowie mehrere Fahrzeuge. Der Geschäftsmann habe im Handel mit erneuerbaren Energien Kasse gemacht.
Die über mehrere italienische Regionen verstreuten Vermögenswerte waren schon im September 2010 vorläufig beschlagnahmt worden, doch erst jetzt wurde das volle Ausmaß bekannt und der persönliche Besitz Nicastris durch einen Gerichtsbeschluss endgültig unter Staatsverwaltung gestellt. Der 57-Jährige hat nach Erkenntnissen des Kriminalamts zur Bekämpfung der Mafia (DIA) erfolgreich Geschäfte mit erneuerbaren Energien aus Wind- und Solaranlagen betrieben und steht im Verdacht, der Mafia so bei der Geldwäsche geholfen zu haben. Der Wirtschaftszweig wird in Italien häufig zur Geldwäsche missbraucht.
Darüber hinaus soll Nicastri enge Verbindungen zum Chef der sizilianischen Mafia Cosa Nostra, Matteo Messina Denaro, pflegen. Die Beschlagnahme des Eigentums des "Herr der Winde" mache dem obersten Mafioso Siziliens "das Leben sicherlich schwieriger", sagte DIA-Chef Arturo de Felice. Der Unternehmer selbst wurde für drei Jahre unter Hausarrest an seinem Wohnsitz in der Ortschaft Alcamo gestellt. Seine Vermögenswerte unterstünden jetzt einem Justizverwalter, sagte Felice. Einnahmen daraus kämen dem Staat zugute.
Freuen dürfen sich aber auch die Ermittler: Sie können Felice zufolge nun Kommissariate in Nicastris Villen einrichten und seine Autos für Dienstfahrten benutzen. http://www.wochenblatt.de/9,171098
The head of the Italian anti-mafia agency, Arturo de Felice, gives a press conference in Rome on April 3, 2013 after Italian police said they had seized assets worth 1.3 billion euros (1.7 billion US dollars) from a Sicilian renewable energy developer in the biggest ever seizure of mafia-linked assets. (GABRIEL BOUYS/
ROME -- Italian police have seized a record (EURO)1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) in cash and property from a single person, a Sicilian alternative energy entrepreneur alleged to have close ties to the Mafia.
Italy's anti-Mafia investigators said in a statement Wednesday that Vito Nicastri, a 57-year-old native of Alcamo, near Trapani, was placed under surveillance and must remain in Alcamo for three years. He is accused of declaring for tax purposes a fraction of the value of his businesses.
Italian media have dubbed Nicastri the "king of alternative energy" for his vast holdings in wind farms and photovoltaic cell companies.
Police said the seizures include 43 companies; 98 pieces of real estate including buildings, homes, stores and land; 66 bank accounts, credit cards and investment funds.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/vito-nicastri_n_3007679.html?utm_hp_ref=world
Vor 5 Jahren, war die Sizilianische Mafia in Tirana, und machte Geschäfte mit Genc Ruli und danach beantragte man Milliarden EU Gelder.
2/3/2008
Das hoch korrupte “Karaburun” Wind Park Projekt muss gestoppt werden
Das in der Antike als “Tor zur Unterwelt” bekannte Cap Karaburun (bei Vlore und der Insel Sazan), soll durch illegale Statements und Staats Aktionen, bei Bruch Internationaler Vereinbarungen und ratifizierter Abkommen in einen angeblichen Windpark umgewandelt werden, was eines der sattsam bekannten Methoden des gigantischen Grundstücks Diebstahles ist und der Geldwäsche über Ferien Haus Immobilien.
Karaburun
In Wirklichkeit handelt es sich um ein Mafiöses Immobilien Projekt, denn die Firma “Moncada Costruzioni” plant ein Netzwerk von Strassen im National Park von Karaburun, um dort hohe Geldsummen zu waschen und über den Immobilien Verkauf reich zu werden und Italienische und Albanische Politiker, über die sattsam bekannten Geldwäsche Banken in Zypern zu bedienen und zu beteiligen.
Das Albanische Mafia System kann jeder leicht erkennen, denn über 400.000 Immobilien wurden auf gestohlenen Grundstücken gebaut und am liebsten entlang der Strassen, Wasser- und Strom Leitungen.
Deshalb gilt, was dieser Artikel sehr gut beschreibt, das man mit derartigen dubiosen Projekten in Wirklichkeit über Tausend Hektar Natur Park in die Mafiösen Immobilien Geschäfte der “Politiker",( wobei man in Albanien ja genügend Erfahrung hat mit der Sizilianischen Mafia hat) umwandeln will.
Der Chef der Sizilianer Firma aus Agrigent im Interview in 2006!
Salvatore Moncada: Intervista filmata - Moncada Costruzioni
Und was er selbst ausführt, über die Sizilianische Mafia etc.
Across the island in Agrigento, industrialist Salvatore Moncada described himself as proof businessmen can stand up to mobsters.
He has repeatedly refused demands made of his 180-employee company, Moncada Costruzioni Srl, Italy’s fifth-largest producer of wind energy. In one case, Moncada’s testimony helped jail a mobster who demanded $7,500.
At one point, Moncada wore a wire to a meeting with a mobster. “I was sweating a little bit,” he recalled. But no threats were made and the gangster wasn’t arrested.
http://www.katu.com/news/national/13766102.html
Trotzdem muss man sich fragen, woher er 2,6 Milliarden € hat und überhaupt seine durchaus bekannte Firma, welche Nr. 5 ist im Windpark Geschäft in Italien.
Moncada Costruzioni
Die Schock Therapie, des Georg Soros und seine EU Bande mit Kriminellen, runierte alle Wirtschaften im Ostblock, im Balkan. Also wandern die Leute heute mangels Perspektive aus, wandern in kriminelle Netzwerke ab.
Und wer weiß, nach Edi Rama George Soros ist.In dieser Episode von „Inside Judicial Watch“,
bespricht Senior Investigator William F. Marshall einige unserer
wichtigsten Untersuchungen und Enthüllungen von Korruption, die in 2018
stattfand, einschließlich Missbrauchsskandal FISA, dem berüchtigten
Treffen Clinton / Lynch im Jahr 2016 Mueller Untersuchung und die
illegale Einwanderung.
Kriminelle Idioten an die Front, im Georg Soros Stile des Peter Altmaier,
Olaf Scholz (siehe Betrugs Skandale Nord Bank, mit Consults und
Cerburus), Katharina Barley, 500 Millionen € erhielt gerade Albanien von
der EU, denn die EU, KFW Betrugs Verbrecher sind Haupt Financiers, der
kriminellen Albanischen Regierungen und des Drogen Handels. Tiummelplatz
von Dumm Kriminellen von Johannes Hahn, Knut Fleckenstein Michael Roth
und Co., denn es gibt viel Geld zustehlen und zu verdienen.
Europe’s Transport future for a more inclusive union, under the Multiannual
Financial Framework for 2021-2027 was debated in the European Parliament
between the European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Corina Crețu, and
Greek Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis. Crețu came out strongly in
defence of Greece, reiterating the rolse she played during the economic
crisis that gave Greece the opportunity
Dreist: sich als Wahlbeobachter bewerben und real ist man gut geschmiert, die Angela Merkel nahe Karin Strenz.
Bundestag rügt CDU-Abgeordnete Strenz wegen Aserbaidschan-Affäre
Destani - Steinmeier
Karin Strenz erhielt über eine deutsche Firma Geld aus Aserbaidschan. Nun hat der Bundestag einen Verhaltensverstoß der Parlamentarierin festgestellt. Eine Kunstschul Lehrerin, also ohne besonders viel Verstand.
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Karin Strenz (September 2017)
Der Bundestag hat die CDU-Abgeordnete Karin Strenz wegen einer Verletzung ihrer Pflichten gerügt. Das Bundestagspräsidium stellte fest, dass Strenz gegen die Verhaltensregeln des Parlaments verstoßen habe. Die Abgeordnete habe veröffentlichungspflichtige Angaben "jeweils nach Ablauf der Anzeigefrist angezeigt", teilte die Bundestagsverwaltung mit.
Laut "Tagesspiegel" geht es dabei um Geld, das Strenz über eine deutsche Firma aus Aserbaidschan erhielt. Demnach droht der CDU-Politikerin deshalb neben der Rüge ein Ordnungsgeld in fünfstelliger Höhe. Bevor das Präsidium das Ordnungsgeld verhängt, könne die Abgeordnete allerdings noch einmal selbst Stellung nehmen, wie die Zeitung weiter berichtete.
Der SPD-Bundestagsabgeordnete Frank Schwabe forderte der Zeitung gegenüber, Strenz solle "ihr Mandat niederlegen, weil sie dem Ansehen der Politik schweren Schaden zugefügt hat". Andernfalls müsse die Unionsfraktion "nun endlich handeln und Strenz ausschließen".
Strenz hatte laut einem Untersuchungsbericht des Europarats für eine Beratungsfirma des ehemaligen Bundestagsabgeordneten Eduard Lintner (CSU) gearbeitet, die Lobbyarbeit für Aserbaidschan machte und von Baku finanziert wurde. Trotzdem nahm sie 2015 an einer Wahlbeobachtungsmission der Parlamentarierversammlung in Aserbaidschan teil, was gegen die Regeln über Interessenkonflikte verstieß.
Strenz war Anfang 2018 wegen der Vorwürfe nicht wieder für die Parlamentarische Versammlung des Europarats nominiert worden.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundestag-karin-strenz-cdu-wegen-aserbaidschan-affaere-geruegt-a-1248847.html
Scheidet im März aus dem US Department of State aus, wo die kriminelle US Politik mit solchen Banditen eine lange Tradition in Mazedonien hatte, neben anderen Politikern aus Berlin, Brüssel und London. Philip Reeker die Dumm Korruptions Pest im Balkan schon vor 15 Jahren, aber wenn korrupte Idioten wie Nuland, Richard Holbrock, Frank Wisner, Steinmeier, Heiko Maas und Hillary Clinton das Sagen haben, konnte Nichts mehr verwundern.
Georg Soros korrumpierte alle Balkan Staaten mit den Deutschen
Zustände, welche direkt in Rumänien mit Nastase, Gerhard Schröder und
Steinmeier geschaffen haben, heute operiert man mit der EU
Ratspräsidentschaft direkt auch gegen die peinliche EU Organisation: OLAF,
denn ungehindert kann man EU Gelder stehlen im Balkan, welche überall
in tiefen Schwarzen Löchern, wie die KfW Gelder verschwinden, fast immer
mit Bauschrott, was mit Bodo Hombach begann. Aktuelle OLAF Aktion, wo
man sich im Balkan tot lacht: man will gegen den Zigaretten Schmuggel vorgehen. Verantwortlich für diesen Unfug, natürlich der in die EU abgeschobene korrupte: Günther H. Oettinger, verantwortlich auch für die Gelder der Agrar Mafia.
Billig eingekauft: Justizministerin: Katharina Barley, mit dem Betrüger Georg Soros, ebenso Altmaier, der sich mit Gangstern wie Tony Blair, Al Gore und Georg Soros gerade in Davos traf
Attention to the questionable past business career of Liviu Dragnea, the
head of Romania’s ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD), has gained new
momentum as he takes action against OLAF, the European Anti-Fraud Office.
Dragnea is contesting the results of its investigation into a €21m fraud
involving a company allegedly connected to Dragnea and EU funds.
US Ambassador to Macedonia Jess Baily forced to retire
A career ending with a dud!
The most despised American diplomat to ever set foot in Macedonia
(previously kicked out by Turkey) is certainly Jess Baily, with Philip
Reeker (his boss), coming in at close second.
Baily, the scandal ridden sociopath who has meddled more in
Macedonian elections and Judiciary than all of previous foreign
Ambassadors put together, announced his career with the State Department
is over! Just like that.
It’s another diplomat, in our case, a junior CIA operative Jess Baily
ends his career after sustained contact with his creation Zoran Zaev.
The Murtino messiah has done this to quite a few diplomats, it’s
contagious. Ask Mad Dog Mattis, Wess Mitchell, Bryan Hoyt Yee, Angela
Merkel… In
Baily’s case though, he used Uncle Sam’s Bank i.e. dispatched millions
of US taxpayers dollars straight into the coffers of Goerge Soros.
Did anyone seriously think Soros is spending his own money anywhere? The
US State Department and USAid are Soros’ piggy bank. Unfortunately for
our good friend Jess Baily, dozens of media reports came out that all of
the USAid and State Department “aid” in Macedonia was rerouted to Soros
run “NGOs”, to the tune of some $14m in the last few years. Off the
books, the numbers are $50m since 2011.
The US Embassy is being investigated for over a year, most recently
twelve auditors were sent to Skopje to see where the money trail goes. What they found was … Jess Baily is retiring.
These investigations will continue once Baily is shipped off to
Washington, the retirement being an expected outcome considering he will
be spending most of his time in Courts.
Die Georg Soros, die Albaner und US Mafia fälscht wieder die Geschichte. Eine einzige geschichtliche Quellen haben die Faschisten Banden noch nie genannt, obwohl Professoren wie Peter Bartl, Oliver Schmid, und andere wie auch die Osmanischen Bücher eine andere Geschichte erzählten wie die Lagerfeuer Geschichte der Dümmsten aus dem Kosovo und den USA.
Mit Geschichtsfälschungen, kann die US Mafia des Josef DioGuardio viel Geld verdienen. U.a. wurden Waffen geschmuggelt, direkt durch seinen Stellvertretet: Josef Traficante jun., der später verurteilt wurde auch wegen Betrug.
History is in many ways a myth we create for ourselves.
History is constantly falsified to justify wars and territorial claims.
Albanian apologists have falsified the role Albania played in the
Holocaust to justify an illegal US/NATO war against Serbia and to allow
for the creation of a Greater Albania that would include the Serbian
province of Kosovo-Metohija. The Albanian role in the Holocaust was
falsified and manipulated to advance the creation of an “independent”
Kosova, an ethnically pure Albania statelet, a second Albanian state in
eastern Europe.
The Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Albania are
estimated at 591 from 1941 to 1944, when a Greater Albania was sponsored
by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. There were 33 known families of
Albanian Jews living in pre-war Albania. The largest Jewish community
consisted of 15 Jewish families living in Vlora. According to the 1930
census, there were 204 Jews living in Albania. At the Wannsee Conference
in 1942, when the Final Solution was organized, the total Jewish
population of Albania was listed as 200 Jews. By 1939 there were Jewish
refugees from Germany and Austria.
On right, Kosovar Albanian Muslim
Nazir Hodic, a member of the Nazi SS Division Handzar in Bosnia. On
left is Rudi Sommemer, the commander of the Nazi SS Albanian Battalion,
6/28 in Handzar. Hodic is shown wearing the Albanian skull cap issued by
the SS with a Nazi swastika on his collar.
The two factors that explain why more
Jews in Albania were not killed are that Albania was under Italian
control and Albania had a very small Jewish population. Italian forces
in Albania rejected the Final Solution as “the German disease” and did
not enforce anti-Jewish measures. This is why Albanian Jews were
“rescued” in Albania, not because of anything the Albanians did
themselves. There was no history of ideological anti-Semitism in
Albania. But this was true of every country in the Balkans. A history of
anti-Semitism did not exist in Greece, Serbia, Montenegro,
Bosnia-Hercegovina, Hungary, or Romania. So Albania was not unique in
this regard in any way. The small number of Jews in Albania also played a
key role in why they were not killed. During the Italian occupation,
they were able to disperse and blend in the general population. When
Germany occupied Albania in 1943, the Jewish population was already
beyond reach.
What role did Albania play in the Holocaust? Albanian
apologists maintain that no Jews were killed in Albania during the
Holocaust. Is this accurate? What is the context of this statement?
Albanian apologists have consciously and methodically falsified the
Albanian role in the Holocaust. The way this was done was to totally
suppress the fact that Kosovo-Metohija was a part of Albania from 1941
to 1944. Also left out is the fact that a Greater Albania was in fact
created that included not only Kosovo-Metohija, Kosova in the Greater
Albania ideology, but southern Serbian territory, territory in southern
Montenegro, and western Macedonia, or Illirida. Albanian apologists
distort history by implying that it was Albanians that rescued Jews. But
in fact it was the Italian occupation forces that opposed the Final
Solution and who rescued Jews. Another falsification is the omission
of the role played by Xhafer Deva, a Kosovar Albanian Muslim, in the
Greater Albanian state and in the Holocaust.
Albanian apologists falsify the history of the Holocaust
by suppressing the fact that it was Adolf Hitler who first created a
Greater Albania that included the Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija.
They assiduously cover-up the fact that it was Adolf Hitler who set the
precedent for an “independent” Kosova, an ethnically pure Albanian
Kosova. Albanian apologists have carefully suppressed and deleted this
fact.
Rescue in Albania by Harvey Sarner was published in book
form in 1997 just in time for the Kosovo conflict and the start of the
KLA terrorism campaign sponsored by the US/EU/NATO. It began being used
as a propaganda tract immediately. The book was to pave the way for US
military intervention in Serbia. It was first published as a booklet in
1992 as “The Jews of Albania”. It was released following the aliyah or
emigration of the entire Jewish population out of Albania. They settled
in Tel Aviv and other towns and cities in Israel. Little is revealed
about the author. This throws up red flags. But Sarner did play a major
role in the emigration of Albanian Jews to Israel. So the publication
initially was payback or a goodwill gesture from Sarner for the
emigration out of Albania to Israel. Israel got 300 new citizens and
Albania got the pamphlet “The Jews of Albania”, a thank you note.
Rudi Sommerer, the commander of
the Nazi SS Albanian Kosovar Muslim Battalion 6/28, wearing a gray
Albanian skull cap specially made by the SS Main Office, 1944.
Who is Harvey Sarner? He is a third
generation American of Jewish-Polish descent. Sarner is a retired
American attorney. He is not a historian. The book is essentially a hack
job. Sarner has paid or “subsidized” visits to Israel of “Righteous
Gentiles”. He has written another book, General Anders and the Soldiers
of the Second Polish Corps in 1997. Yad Vashem has listed 118 Serbs as
“Righteous Gentiles” who rescued Jews during the Holocaust while only 61
Albanians have been so honored. But Sarner conveniently doesn’t mention
this. He is the chairman of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Jewish
Foundation for Christian Rescuers. He has worked with Jews in Poland,
Ukraine, and Albania. His primary focus is on Jewish emigration to
Israel and in documenting those non-Jews who have “rescued” Jews during
the Holocaust.
Rescue in Albania is nothing more than a thinly-veiled
propaganda tract. His subtitle is: “One Hundred Percent of Jews in
Albania Rescued from Holocaust.” The book features an Albanian and
Israeli flag on the cover. Van Christo, the Albanian president of the
Frosina Foundation, has used the book for “fund raising purposes” to
obtain money for the separatist campaign in Kosovo. Lobby money can buy
you a lot of lies. That is the American way. And Sarner knows that.
In this propaganda tract, Sarner says nothing about the
21st SS Division “Skanderbeg”, made up primarily of Kosovar Muslim
recruits, nothing about the genocide committed by Albanians against the
Serbian and Jewish populations of Kosovo, and the genocide in
Bosnia-Hercegovina, and Croatia. He says nothing about the destruction
of Serbian Orthodox churches and cathedrals in Kosovo. He says nothing
about the murder of Serbian Orthodox priests. Is it ignorance? It is
willful ignorance. He suppresses and deletes anything negative about
Albania and Albanians. A fundamental aspect of propaganda is that it is
one-sided, subjective, and tells only half the story. Under this
definition, Rescue in Albania is pure propaganda.
In October, 1997, the Albanian American Civic League
(AACL, Lobbi Shqiptar), headed by Joe DioGuardi, began a systematic
campaign to use the book by Sarner as a propaganda tool in the upcoming
Kosovo separatist/terrorist war. DioGuardi lost his re-nomination bid in
1988 for Congress. Rejected by US voters, DioGuardi turned his efforts
to the Muslim Kosovars, representing the citizens of another country,
Yugoslavia. The AACL had been founded in 1989 by DioGuardi to revive the
Greater Albania ideology established by the 1878 First League of
Prizren. In 1943, Nazi Germany re-established the dormant Greater
Albania ideology or program by establishing the Second League of Prizren
under Xhafer Deva.
DioGuardi’s agenda for the AACL is stated as follows: “to
liberate the seven million Albanian people in the Balkans from hostile
Slavic domination.” This is an echo of Hitler’s statements regarding the
Sudeten Germans in 1938. It is nothing less than a racist, neo-fascist
and neo-Nazi ideology and campaign of expansion, to create a Greater
Albania. The AACL requested that Thomas Lantos and Benjamin Gilman write
a Forward to Rescue in Albania. The League distributed 10,000 copies,
mostly to influential Jews in the US as propaganda for the coming
separatist conflict in Kosovo-Metohija. Congressman Gilman and James
Traficant then sent copies of the book with personal letters to each
Jewish member of Congress with a “Dear Colleague” letter to other House
members.
Kosovar Albanian Muslim Skanderbeg
Nazi SS Division/Kampfgruppe in Kosovo, 1944. This Nazi SS Division,
made up of Kosovar Muslims, rounded up Kosovo Jews that were murdered in
the Nazi death camps.
U.S. Representative James Traficant,
D-Ohio, was later found guilty on bribery and corruption charges. A
House panel voted to expel Traficant in 2002 from the US Congress. This
shows that the Albanian apologists will say and do anything to support
Greater Albania, even break the law. It shows that you can buy anything
with a bribe. Money can buy a lot of lies. And this is the real danger
of all propaganda. Anyone with any money can falsify the facts and
manipulate others to kill. Bribes can buy a lot of propaganda, or PR or
spin. And the goal is to get people to kill other people and to take
their land. Wars come and go, but propaganda methods do not change.
Sarner begins his book on the Holocaust with a discussion
of Greater Albania, "The Four Vilayets” under Ottoman Turkey: Janina,
Shkodra, Kosovo, and Manastir. This is merely a parroting of the Greater
Albania ideology. Sam Vaknin, in “The Myth of Greater Albania”, October
18, 1999, in the Central Europe Review, argued the opposite view:
“Historically, there was never a ‘Greater Albania’ to hark back to.” But
this is absolutely and patently incorrect and false. Vaknin
conveniently and inexplicably suppresses and deleted any mention of the
1878 Albanian League of Prizren, whose sole raison d’etre was to create a
Greater Albania. In 1943, the Nazis sponsored the creation of a Second
League of Prizren, whose goal again, was to create a Greater Albania.
The Kosovar Albanian Muslim Skanderbeg Nazi SS Division was created to
establish a Greater Albania. In fact, from 1941 to 1944, there was a
Greater Albania which Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini created. Vaknin
seems to have amnesia on this point. He apparently has deleted the
period 1941 to 1944 from his memory. This is convenient for his
argument. Four years in the history of Kosovo and Albania are erased
from the history books. It is as if the period 1941 to 1944 never even
existed. The supporters of Greater Albania and the creation of an
independent Kosova are in serious denial and self-repression. Why? They
don’t want to admit to themselves, or anyone else, that Adolf Hitler
devised and developed the Greater Albania and independent Kosova
policies long before they did. Adolf Hitler was there first. Hitler was
prescient and way ahead of the curve on Kosovo. And this is why there is
denial, amnesia, and psychological self-repression. The result is a
falsification of history.
Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig, commander
of the Nazi SS Division Handzar in Bosnia. He is shown wearing the
Albanerfez, or national Albanian skull cap made by the SS for the Nazi
Albanian Kosovar Muslims in the division.
There was a Greater Albania to hark back
to, and Sarner does an excellent job in re-creating the Greater Albania
ideology. Greater Albania may be a “myth” to Vaknin, but it is not a
myth to Albanians but the primary focus of their national being and
identity. Greater Albania is a hard factual reality for Albanians.
Vaknin makes a semantic distinction that is irrelevant and meaningless.
When Kosovo is 100% ethnically pure Albanian and all the Kosovo Serbs
and Roma and Jews have been killed or driven out and Serbian Orthodox
churches destroyed, the border between Old Albania and New Albania,
i.e., Kosovo will be meaningless. Kosova will just be a second Albanian
state and the distinction between Albania proper and Kosovo will be
moot. Kosova will, for all intents and purposes, and in a practical
sense, be part of a Greater Albania. Vaknin’s argument is specious and
totally wrong.
This discussion of a Greater Albania is just recycled by
Sarner from handouts his Albanian minders provided to him. There is no
question that Sarner has been provided Albanian handlers to help him
with his facts. What Sarner was not told is that these so-called
Albanian Vilayets have non-Albanian majorities and were never part of
Albania. This is the myth of Greater Albania. Janina is in northern
Greece and has never been part of Albania. The population is majority
Greek. There is a small Albanian minority in that former Ottoman Turkish
“vilayet”. Manastir, or Bitola today, is in southern Macedonia which is
majority Macedonian with a minuscule Albanian population. It was never
part of Albania. Shkodra is the territory around southern Montenegro.
Montenegro has a minority Albanian population and has never been part of
Albania. Kosovo-Metohija is the cradle of the Serbian Orthodox church
and of Serbian culture. The towns, cities, and villages all have Serbian
names from the medieval period when it was part of Serbia. The oldest
Serbian Orthodox churches are located in Kosovo. Albanian settlement and
colonization during the Ottoman Turkish period could not erase its
Serbian heritage. Moreover, Kosovo-Metohija was never a part of Albania.
In fact, there had never been an Albanian state until 1912. But Sarner
is silent about all of this.
There are many factual errors and mistakes showing
Sarner’s total and complete ignorance of the actual Holocaust history of
Albania. He referred to “General Futzstun, the Gestapo chief…” There
was no such person named Futzstun. In fact, this was SS Brigadefuehrer
Jozef Fitzhum (1896-1945), who was the Higher SS and Police Leader
(Hoherer SS und Polizeifuehrer, HSSPF) in Albania. Fitzhum was
responsible for internal security, the war against the resistance or
guerrillas, and the implementation of the Final Solution. He assumed
control in Albania after German forces occupied Albania following the
surrender of Italy in September, 1943. He had been the police chief in
Vienna from 1938 to 1940. Fitzhum created the 21st SS Division
Skanderbeg with Xhafer Deva, made up mostly of Kosovar Muslim Albanians.
As noted by Raul Hilberg in The Destruction of the European Jews
(1961), Skanderbeg played a major role in the Holocaust, rounding up the
Jews in Greater Albania who were subsequently sent to Bergen-Belsen
where they were killed.
Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig, commander
of the Nazi SS Division Handzar in Bosnia. He is shown wearing the
Albanerfez, or national Albanian skull cap made by the SS for the Nazi
Albanian Kosovar Muslims in the division.
Sarner sought to make a distinction
between Albania proper and Kosovo. He defined Kosovo as part of “the
annexed territories”. But this is a bit of a ruse and a phony scam.
Kosovo was made a part of Albania in 1941. Kosovo was called the “New
Albania”. The Interior Minister of Albania was a Kosovan or Kosovar
Albanian Muslim, Xhafer Deva. Deva was one of the most influential
Albanians in the Albanian Government. And he was from Kosovo. Sarner
seeks to obfuscate this obvious fact by creating a spurious and
meaningless distinction.
Sarner admitted that Jews in Kosovo were being sent to the
concentration camps where they were killed: “All around them…in the
annexed territories, Jews were being transported to the death camps.” He
admits that Kosovo Jews were being killed. He doesn’t admit that it was
the Albanians who rounded up the Jews so that they could be killed. Why
the omission? He is writing propaganda. He seeks to falsify the
Albanian role in the Holocaust.
He grossly exaggerated the uniqueness of the “rescue” of
Jews in Albania: “In Athens, the Jews refused to supply a list and there
was a 50% survival rate.” He is factually wrong. In fact, the survival
rate was 66% in Athens for Jews. Athens, like Albania, was in the
Italian occupation zone. This explains why the Jews were “rescued”, not
because of Albanian actions. It would be analogous to a cheerleader
claiming credit for a win of the football team. In short, the Albanians
had nothing to do with the so-called rescue. This is giving the
Albanians credit for something that they were not responsible for. It is
a falsification of history. It is out and out propaganda.
By contrast, in Bulgaria, an estimated 50,000 Bulgarian
Jews were “rescued”. But Bulgarians did allow the Jews of Macedonia and
Thrace, then a part of a Greater Bulgaria, to be deported and killed by
German forces. Sarner harped on the propaganda statement that there were
more Jews in Albania after World War II than before it. But this is
misleading. There were only 200 Jews in all of Albania proper during the
war. These Albanian Jews were “rescued” because the Italian occupation
forces did not support the German Final Solution. Because of this fact,
Jews in Eastern Europe all fled to Italian zones of occupation to escape
German incarceration and deportation. The Italians also “rescued” Serbs
from genocidal attacks by Croatian Ustasha forces, Bosnian Muslims, and
Kosovar Albanian Muslims. Albania was part of the route to then
Palestine, containing several ports. Jewish refugees passed through
Albania because it was on the way to Palestine, not because of an
Albanian desire to “rescue” Jews. This is an absurd propaganda
construction concocted by Sarner and his Albanian handlers .
Xhafer Deva, Kosovo Albanian
Muslim interior minister of the Nazi-created Greater Albania. Deva
helped form the Kosovar Muslim Nazi SS Division Skanderbeg which rounded
up the Jews of Kosovo for extermination.
Why this obsession and constant harping
on “the list”? Sarner wrote his book when the Holocaust movie
Schindler’s List (1993) was released. He wants to make the connection
very easy to follow for his readers. He doesn’t want to complicate
things for them too much. Oskar Schindler did not divulge a “list” of
Jews to the Nazis, and the Albanians did not divulge a list to the
Nazis. It is very easy and simple to follow. Oskar Schindler was a
“Righteous Gentile”, as were the Albanian “Christians and Muslims” who
“rescued” Jews. This explains why there is an overemphasis on “the
list”.
Sarner does not examine World War II at any length.
Although his subject matter is purportedly on World War II and the
Holocaust, there is very little on the Holocaust itself. He finally gets
around to discussing the Holocaust period in “Chapter 7”, which he
titled “The Germans”. Most of the book is on Jewish settlement in
Albania and the 1930s period when Jewish-American Herman Bernstein was
the US Ambassador to Albania. There is almost no account of the
Holocaust and World War II. Why is this? This is because Sarner does not
want to elucidate, but obfuscate. He wants to cover-up, not reveal.
He starts off with an incorrect assertion: “The fact” is “
that the Albanian Government and people did not cooperate with the
Germans...” According to Sarner, Xhafer Deva, the Kosovar Muslim
Interior Minister denied the list of Jews to the German forces on page
43. He offers no evidence for these statements. Factually, the Albanian
Government and people did cooperate with the Germans. Indeed, Deva
helped to organize the Nazi 21st Waffen SS Division “Skanderbeg”.
Moreover, there was an Albanian Muslim Battalion of about 300 men in the
Bosnian Muslim 13th Waffen Gebirgs Division der SS “Handschar/Handzar”.
Rudi Sommerer was the commander of the Albanian Battalion in the
Handzar Nazi SS Division. Kosovar Albanian Muslim Nazir Hodic was a
prominent member of the Albanian Battalion in Handzar. This Albanian
Battalion would later form the core of the Skanderbeg Nazi SS Division.
The SS designed special gray skull caps for the Albanian Nazi SS troops.
The Albanian Skanderbeg SS Division also had its own symbol created by
the SS and worn as a collar patch, a goat’s head helmet supposedly
modeled on the one worn by Skanderbeg himself. Sarner doesn’t even
discuss the Balli Kombetar (BK), an ultra-nationalist group committed to
creating a Greater Albania that would include Kosovo. Sarner says
nothing about the known and widespread collaboration of the Balli
Kombetar with the Italian and German occupation forces.
Jozef Fitzhum, SS leader in
Albania, he implemented the Final Solution in Greater Albania and
created the Kosovar Skanderbeg Nazi SS Division.
Sarner maintained that in 1943, the
German occupation forces made a request for a list of Jews living in
Greater Albania. The Germans established an Albanian national committee
that created the Regency that governed Greater Albania. In the spring of
1944, the Nazis asked the Regency for the list of Jews according to
Sarner. The real reason the Jews in Albania proper were not rounded up
and deported was because under Italian occupation they had dispersed and
were difficult to concentrate. German forces and Albanian collaborators
made an effort to kill all the Jews of Greater Albania, but the German
forces had to withdraw from Albania and the war ended before this could
be accomplished. But in Kosovo-Metohija, then part of a Greater Albania,
and Xhafer Deva’s birthplace, Albanians did round up all the known
Jews, who were subsequently sent to the death camps and killed. The
reference to “the list” is a smokescreen and Sarner is a pettifogger.
The reason there was a “rescue” in Albania was because the
Italian government did not support the Final Solution and prevented its
implementation. The German anti-Jewish policy was termed “the German
disease” by the Italians.
Albanians, however, did play a major role in the
Holocaust, the mass killings of Albanian Jews. Sarner plays dumb. All
anyone has to do is to check Raul Hilberg’s seminal Holocaust book, The
Destruction of the European Jews from 1961, to learn that Albanians
played a key and fundamental role in the Holocaust. Sarner calls Kosovo a
part of “The Annexed Territories”. He doesn’t reveal that Adolf Hitler
and Benito Mussolini created a Greater Albania. He doesn’t tell us that
Kosovo-Metohija, parts of Montenegro, southern Serbia, and western
Macedonia were all parts of a Greater Albania. Why? This is the exact
same goal today of US foreign policy and of NATO. It is Adolf Hitler’s
vision. But today, Hitler’s vision is taken up and revived by the US and
NATO and Joe DioGuardi and Thomas Lantos. But Hitler did it first. But
of course, Sarner is unaware of all this. His is a blissful ignorance.
He does concede that Kosovo was made part of Albania: “In April, 1941”
Kosovo “was annexed to Albania…”
Here is what Sarner says about Kosovo: “The Jews in the
‘annexed area’ were not as fortunate as the Jews in Albania proper. Life
in the annexed territories was not as secure and there were unfortunate
incidents of Jews being abused by the local people.” So he does
grudgingly admit that Albanians did participate in the anti-Semitic
outrages against the Jewish population, although he does not use the
word “Kosovar Muslim” or “Albanian” but refers to “the local people”.
There was a Jewish family that was killed in Albania. The
Jewish family Ardel was killed by the Nazis in Albania, but Sarner
qualifies this as being a family of partisans. They were killed not
because they were Jewish, but because they were partisans.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj
Amin el Husseini, met Albanian Muslim leaders and sponsored the creation
of a Greater Islamic State, proposed by Kosovar Albanian Muslim Bedri
Pejani, which would unite Greater Albania and Bosnia-Hercegovina and the
Sandzak region of Serbia. Kosovo Albanians have named a secondary
school in Pec and a street in Pristina after the Nazi Bedri Pejani.
What about the Balli Kombetar (BK,
National Front in Shqip), which emerged after October, 1942 in Vlora, a
BK stronghold, where it was founded by Midhat Frasheri? Why does Sarner
omit any discussion of the BK? Was the BK an anti-Nazi resistance
movement? Was the BK a Nazi/fascist collaborationist group? Sarner
suppresses and covers up any information on the BK.
Bernd Jurgen Fischer, the foremost US historian on Albania
during the Holocaust, a professor of history at the Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis---Fort Wayne, explained the
role of the BK as follows: Much of the Balli Kombetar, which had
remained aloof, was finally convinced to throw in its lot with the
Germans.” Fischer noted that three members of the BK joined the Rexhep
Mitrovica cabinet in January, 1944. Mitrovica was a “Kosovar” or
“Kosovan” Albanian. Mitrovica was the Prime Minister in the Nazi-created
Greater Albania regime, later replaced by the Zogist Fikri Dine. Xhafer
Deva, a Kosovar Muslim, was the interior minister under the Nazi
regime. Thus, the two highest positions, the prime minister and interior
minister of Greater Albania, were held by Kosovars from Kosovo. Kosovo
Albanian Muslims ran Greater Albania.
The collaboration of the Balli Kombetar with the Nazi and
fascist forces is well-documented and well established. According to
Fischer, “elements of the Balli Kombetar supported the Germans.” Fischer
offered conclusive historical evidence and documentation that the Balli
Kombetar, although opportunistic, concerned with gaining power, and
forcefully annexing “Kosova” to a Greater Albania, was a Nazi/fascist
collaborationist group. In February, 1944, British liaison officers
reported that it was difficult for the partisans and resistance groups
to attack the German forces because “they were being screened by
elements of the Balli Kombetar and that these forces had become a normal
part of any German force.” Bill Stone, in a review of Bernd Fischer’s
book Albania at War, 1939-1945, wrote: “The National Front, however,
fragmented completely and for the most part its local leaders chose to
cease their already limited resistance activities and collaborate with
the occupiers.” This is conclusive proof that the BK was a Nazi/fascist
grouping. Fischer leaves no doubt about the role of the BK during the
Holocaust. This is why Sarner deletes and covers up any mention of the
BK.
Kosovar Albanian troops in the Nazi/fascist Balli Kombetar (BK, National Front), known as balists.
Another prominent Kosovar Albanian
Muslim, Bedri Pejani, was appointed to committee the Nazi occupation
authorities established to rule the Nazi-created Greater Albania. Pejani
announced a plan to create a Greater Islamic State consisting of
Albania, Bosnia-Hercegovina, and the Sandzak/Rashka region of Serbia.
The plan was presented to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el
Husseini, who approved of the Pejani plan because it was seen as being
in the interests of Islam. The German government, however, opposed the
plan. The German occupation regime sought to gain the support of the
Albanians by creating a Greater Albania which would include Kosovo. The
German occupation officials emphasized that their policy in Kosovo, the
“new Albania”, was to annex the province permanently to Albania proper,
the “Old Albania”. The Germans sought to convince the Albanians that
German foreign policy would achieve the annexation of “Kosova” to Old
Albania. The German occupation forces, like the US and NATO and the EU
would later do, sought to win over the Albanian population by bestowing
on them land that did not belong to them, by giving away Serbian
territory to gain the support of Albanian proxies. This resulted in
Albanians flocking to the Nazi cause.
In “The Myth of Greater Albania”, Sam Vaknin argued that
“in Albania proper, three anti-fascist resistance movements-… Balli
Kombetar (the National Front)…fought against the occupiers.” This is
patently and obviously incorrect and constitutes a falsification of the
history of the BK. It also whitewashes the BK. Factually, the BK was a
Nazi/fascist collaborationist movement, not an “anti-fascist resistance
movement”. The Federal Research Division of the U.S. Library of Congress
published Albania: A Country Study in which the Nazi/fascist
collaborationist role of the BK was explained as follows:
Some Balli Kombetar units cooperated with the Germans
against the communists, and several Balli Kombetar leaders held
positions in the German-sponsored regime. Albanian collaborators,
especially the Skanderbeg SS Division, also expelled and killed Serbs
living in Kosovo. …The nationalistic Geg chieftains and the Tosk
landowners often came to terms with the Italians, and later the
Germans….
Why the ignorance? Why does Bernd Jurgen Fischer and the
Federal Research Division of the U.S. Library of Congress know the role
of the BK but other “experts” do not? Clearly, the goal here is to
create PR and propaganda for the creation of a Greater Albania including
Kosovo, or the practical equivalent, an “independent Kosova”. To reveal
the factual history of the BK would not help in the creation of an
“independent Kosova”. The whole game here is to conceal the fact that
Adolf Hitler was the original sponsor of an independent Kosova, part of a
Greater Albania. Logically speaking, it would not help in the creation
of an independent Kosova if it was revealed that the BK was a
Nazi/fascist group that also sought the same thing, but with Adolf
Hitler’s help, instead of Bill Clinton’s. The syllogism would not work.
Sarner incorrectly implied that Albania escaped all the
horrors of the Final Solution and Holocaust. But this is not true.
Albania too experienced the Holocaust. The German occupation forces
imposed anti-Jewish laws in Kosovo. Kosovo Jews wore “J” for “Juden” or
“Jew”. Kosovo Jews wore white armbands with the word “Jude” in black
letters. ID cards were stamped with a red “J”. Josef Fitzhum was
determined to carry out the Final Solution in Albania. Fitzhum ordered
the Jews of Vlora deported. And at least one Jewish family was killed.
Collar patches of the Kosovar Nazi
SS Division Skanderbeg. Rge SS created a helmet with a goat's head for
the Albanian Nazis in the division, supposedly worn by George Kastrioti,
Skanderbeg.
Sarner finally got around to admitting
that Albanians played an active and major role in the Holocaust: “In
Prishtina, capital city of the annexed territories, the local
authorities complied with German demands and jailed 60 Jewish men.”
The Albanian Government played an active role in the
Holocaust. On April 1, 1942, the Albanian Minister of the Interior gave
instructions to the Albanian Prefect of Police that Jews who came after
the war started should be “gathered on a field of concentration.” On
March 20, 1942, he had ordered that the Jews be imprisoned and a list of
Jews provided. In Note C, The Fields of Concentration, Sarner conceded
that this euphemistic language meant a concentration camp: “This was the
name given to what were otherwise known as concentration camps. These
were camps for civilians and…their populations were mainly Jews….The
camps were surrounded by barbed wire….It was an ugly place.” This is a
very roundabout and disingenuous and dishonest way to admit that the
Albanian Government set up concentration camps for Jews in Albania. It
is artful spin and propaganda. But it is also a malicious attempt at
falsifying history. Sarner is rewriting history, creating a phony and
bogus history.
Sarner even finally conceded that the Albanian Government
and Albanian authorities took an active part in the extermination of
European Jews: “In June, 1943…the Albanian police chief suggested the
jailing of certain Jews:
‘According to our investigation the Jews listed below are
dangerous because they are propaganderizing [sic] against the Axis
(Rome-Berlin) and they want to organize and hold meetings. We think
these people should be taken away from here as soon as possible to one
of the concentration fields, because their staying here could be
dangerous to the regime.’”
To complete the circle, Sarner finally grudgingly admits
that the Albanian Government and people played a major role in the
Holocaust and Final Solution: “In April, 1944, the Germans shipped 400
Jews from the annexed territories to Bergen-Belsen; 100 survived the
war.” Sarner then grudgingly admitted that the Albanians participated in
the murder of at least 300 Albanian Jews, Jews who lived in Greater
Albania.
Then Sarner creates a propaganda smokescreen by arguing
absurdly that the Albanians only helped to kill only 40% of the Jewish
population of Kosovo, then a part of Greater Albania: “According to our
report the survival rate in Kosove [sic] was sixty percent, which made
it, relatively, one of the areas with the highest percentage of survival
in occupied Europe.” This is a patently absurd and nonsensical
argument. It displays a bizarre moral calculus.
Gjon Marka Gjoni, the fascist leader of the Albanian Roman Catholics, whose followers were in the Skanderbeg SS Division.
Finally, in Footnote 2, Sarner explained
why he wrote the book and its ultimate purpose. The book was written
essentially as a propaganda tract, a falsified history of the Holocaust,
in order to garner support for the creation of a Greater Albania or
“independent” Kosova. This is the method to Sarner’s madness. There
almost always is some secret purpose, isn’t there? These “experts”
always have a hidden agenda that they peddle. Propaganda is, rarely, if
ever random. Propaganda is meticulously coordinated and planned out. In
propaganda, there is no such thing as an accident or something happening
by chance. The book had a clear-cut goal and purpose all along.
Propaganda is written for a specific purpose and goal. As Adolf Hitler
himself noted, propaganda is not written for “blasé young gentlemen”,
but to convince the masses, to persuade key groups, key target
audiences. In this case, the target audience was powerful and
influential establishment Jews in the US.
Sarner parrots the Albanian and US State Department policy
on the Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija as follows: “The status of
Kosova[sic], currently a part of Yugoslavia, is in contention today.
Albanians favor either independence for Kosova or its being a part of
Albania. The people of the area are ethnic Albanians.” Of course, this
statement too is incorrect and is patently absurd. The borders of
Yugoslavia are recognized by the United Nations and by international
law. Yugoslavia, as a sovereign nation, has a right and duty to
safeguard and protect its own internationally recognized and legal
borders. But Sarner knows all that. Propaganda is not written to be
rational. As Hitler noted, propaganda appeals to the emotions and
subjective and irrational nature of man. This is what Sarner is
appealing to.
What is the Kosovo conflict all about? Edith Durham in The
Burden of the Balkans, published in 1905, explained the Albanian goal
in Kosovo succinctly and clearly:
The Christian the Albanian persecutes is the Slav
Christian, and this is the old, old race hatred. Of all the passions
that sway human fortunes, race hatred is, perhaps, the strongest and the
most lasting.
The Kosovo conflict is all about “race hatred”, what we
call “racism” today. It is all about finishing the job Adolf Hitler and
Benito Mussolini started. It is called genocide and ethnic cleansing.
This is the real goal. This is why Sarner is falsifying the history.
Durham also argued that the Shqip or Albanian
language is an “Aryan tongue”. The Nazi/fascist sponsors of Greater
Albania in 1941 would also argue that the Albanians were part of the
Aryan, or master race, a superior race.
In 1991, virtually the entire Jewish population of Albania
left for Israel. The Jews were airlifted to Israel after the collapse
of the Communist regime. Albania under the Communist regime of Enver
Hoxha maintained no diplomatic relations with Israel. Hoxha abolished
religion and created an atheistic state in Albania. Today, there are
less than 40 Jews in all of Albania. They live in the capital Tirana. In
Kosovo, the small Jewish population was ethnically cleansed out of
Kosovo in 1999 along with Kosovo Serbs and other non-Albanians after
NATO troops occupied the Serbian province. The Kosovo Jews fled to
Belgrade. There are no more Jews living in Kosovo today, which is under
NATO military occupation.
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Wind turbines. Image by: BP plc (www.bp.com).
Attention to the questionable past business career of Liviu Dragnea, the
head of Romania’s ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD), has gained new
momentum as he takes action against OLAF, the European Anti-Fraud Office.
Dragnea is contesting the results of its investigation into a €21m fraud
involving a company allegedly connected to Dragnea and EU funds.
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