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4th "Ali Demi" Battalion

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the majority of the elites of the Cham community had become corrupted by the occupying forces and the atmosphere against the local Greeks who had suffered under Germans, Italians and Chams, led to an explosive polarization which would have constrained any motivation for joint Greek-Cham resistance.
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Being formed at the end of the war, the battalion had no significant contribution in fighting the occupation forces. Other Cham Albanians were enlisted in VI, VII, IX and XI brigade of Greek People's Liberation Army, and fought in different mixed battalions of ELAS. After ELAS managed to enter
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forces of occupation in Greece on 7 June 1942 and it would become the resistance group in which Cham Albanians would found their battalion. Cham Albanians had been fighting the occupiers in unorganized small groups, under the lead of the
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acting under the instructions of allied officers. Two attacks took place in July and August with the participation of EDES Tenth Division and the local Greek
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In an attempt to establish an ethnically pure border region, the Chams were evicted from northern Greece by guerrilla forces under the command of General
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Mazower, Mark. After The War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation and State in Greece, 1943-1960. Princeton University Press, 2000,
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Mark Mazower (2001). Inside Hitler's Greece - The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44. United States: Yale University Press.
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between the communist ELAS and the anti-communist forces of EDES and the Greek government, backed by the British allies.
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Anamali, Skënder and Prifti, Kristaq. Historia e popullit shqiptar në katër vëllime. Botimet Toena, 2002,
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followed in April 1941, and by the middle of May, Greece was under joint occupation by three Axis powers:
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region in late 1944, about four to five thousand Albanians returned to their homes. But after the
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and included Cham Albanians, Orthodox Albanians and Greeks from the Greek minority of Albania.
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In May 1944, a group of local Cham Albanians, created the battalion named after
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One of the major resistance groups in Greece was the communist-led
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The Cham Issue - Albanian National & Property Claims in Greece
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Organization for the Protection of the People's Struggle (OPLA)
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Museum of the Battle of Crete and the National Resistance
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At the end of 1943, a group of Cham Albanians, led by
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