Albania- A Puppet State of Fascist Italy

 

Victor Emmanuel III became King of Albania in 1939 after the London Treaty.

Albanians immagined the new King as their new Scanderbeg. 

Albania became a protectorate country of Italian fascists who hated Greece, declared war on Greece, and had their eyes on the resources of North Epirus.

The new constitution of Albania under Victor Victor Emmanuel III

Fundamental Statute of the Albanian Kingdom:

Art. 5. The legislative power is exercised by the King in collaboration with the superior fascist corporative council

Art. 2. The Albanian flag is red with a double-headed black eagle in the middle and the emblem of the lictorial fasces.

Albanian flag with fasces symbol of the Fascist era.

Albanians at the coronation of the Victor Emmanuel III at the Palazzo Venezia.

Albanians with Mussolini (Duce) at the same day

Albanians soon learned to salute like Nazis. Nazis and Italians had common goals in the Mediterranean. Albanians from the mercenaries of the Turks became the mercenaries of the Italians.

The Italians created the branch of the Fascist Party in Albania. The party in Albania was founded in the name of Mussolini. 

Albanian fascist leaders meet with Italian fascist leaders.

Happy Albanians are meeting their invadors. 

Albanians ask for liberation from Hitler and Mussolini. Italians promised Albanians nonsense.

The Albanian soldiers started wearing a Turkish fez with the Roman symbol fasces in it that became the symbol of the Fascist Rome. MVSN - Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale, (Voluntary Militia for National Security) was the Italian Blackshirts part of the military that employed Albanians.

Albanian fascist Militia was created by the Italians. 

Albanians put the fascist symbol on their flag as well.

More Albanian fascist symbols on the Albanian military uniforms. 

Italians started taking Albanians to their military schools and preparing them physically to attack the Epirotes. Italians declared the Greeks their enemy.

One of the military schools that prepared Albanians was the fascist school of Predazzo.

Predazzo is a small village and then a fascist commune in the province of Trento, northern Italy. It is a small alpine village that was used by Italian fascists to work out and have secret meetings.

Albanians being used by Italians

Albanians transporting Italians around the country