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On April 7 1939, Italy "..bombarded the [Albanian] coast towns and landed an army which, after some resistance by the natives, overran the whole country." The king fled to Greece. Notice this was long before the attack on Poland that precipitated WWII. The Italians established a captive government and tried to absorb Albania (even though a non-aggression and defensive alliance was in force between the two countries). When Italy launched its attack on Greece (October 28, 1940), the Greeks repelled and invaded Albania, conquering a quarter of the country, until the Germans intervened and took over command of the Italian front. My sources: An Encyclopaedia of World History, Houghton-Mifflin, 1952, and Grenville, A History of the World in the 20th Century, 1994,Belknap-Harvard. And yours? |
