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The 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (founded May 1944) was a
German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the Nazi P
arty that served alongside the German armed forces during World War II. Composed
of Muslim Albanians with mostly German and ethnic German Yugoslav officers and
non-commissioned officers, it was named for medieval Albanian lord George Kastri
oti Skanderbeg, who had defended the region of Albania against the Ottoman Empir
e. The division committed numerous atrocities in predominantly Serb areas, and r
ounded up Jews in Pristina for deportation to the Bergen-Belsen concentration ca
mp on 14 May 1944. Its only significant military actions took place during a Ger
man anti-Partisan offensive in the German occupied territory of Montenegro in Ju
ne and July. It was then deployed as a guard force in Kosovo, where it was quick
ly overrun by the Partisans. Reinforced by German Kriegsmarine (navy) personnel
and with less than 500 Albanians remaining in its ranks, it was disbanded on 1 N
ovember 1944. Divisional commander SS-Brigadefhrer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS
August Schmidhuber was later found guilty of war crimes by a Belgrade court and
executed in 1947. (Full article...)
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Statue of Simon de Montfort on the Haymarket Memorial Clock Tower in Leicester
1264 Second Barons' War: King Henry III was defeated at the Battle of Lewes and
forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort (statue pictured) the
de facto ruler of England.
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ion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with the intention of revising the Articles o
f Confederation.
1931 Five people were killed in dalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unar
med trade union demonstration.
1940 World War II: The bulk of Dutch forces surrendered to the Wehrmacht, ending
the Battle of the Netherlands.
1961 In Anniston, Alabama, US, a mob of Ku Klux Klansmen attacked the buses of t
he Freedom Riders, who were riding interstate buses in the South in mixed racial
groups to challenge local segregation laws.
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A diagram of the bones of the human arm, including the pectoral girdle, upper ar
m, forearm, wrist, and hand. Humans have 32 bones in each arm (including the sho
ulder), most of them in the hand and wrist.
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