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...Albania for the Allies...
When the Allies march in to help the Albanians rescue their nation from the Germans and Italians they will discover ... a nation of liberty-loving individuals who have been schooled for generations in the art of battling for freedom. Our troops will find an Albania which idolizes Americans and Russians, hates . . . tyrants of any nationality...
...Weichs was evidently determined to hold the outer ring of Balkan defenses and exact a good price for any Allied landings on the mainland. Other ring positions recently secured by the Germans: strategic Corfu at the entrance to the Adriatic, Cephalonia farther south in the Ionian Sea, and Albania. On the Dalmatian coast, above Albania, "General Tito's" Partisans lost the port of Spalato last week, but they are making the iron ring uncomfortably hot to hold...
...idea of Festung Europa-a continent to be held everywhere, at any cost-was probably never much more than propaganda, and it began to fade months ago. There were reports that the Germans planned to leave most of Italy and Yugoslavia, all of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Crete and their Mediterranean islands outside their main line of continental defense. An inner fortress, to be held as a last barrier around the Reich, would include northern Italy and Yugoslavia, Hungary, Rumania, and a Russian front running through eastern Poland. But, said these reports, the Germans would surrender lower Italy and the other...
From airdromes and ports already seized in southern Italy, bombers and warships can harry the Germans in Greece. Retreat northward, or a stand which in the end can gain them little, are the alternatives. If Albania falls to the Allies, Greece will become a trap for any Germans who remain...