The 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) was a mountain division of the Waffen SS set up by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler in March 1944, officially under the title of 21. Waffen Gebirgs-Division der SS „Skanderbeg“ (albanische Nr. 1). It was named after George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, the national hero of Albanians, who resisted Ottoman invasion for 25 years.
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