Open AccessProsvetna politika Kraljevine Albanije na Kosovu i Metohiji tokom Drugog svetskog rata
Author(s) -
Igor Vukadinović
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
tokovi istorije
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2560-547X
pISSN - 0354-6497
DOI - 10.31212/tokovi.2021.1.vuk.109-132
Subject(s) - ministry of foreign affairs , christian ministry , political science , communism , state (computer science) , world war ii , public administration , economic history , law , history , politics , algorithm , computer science
Kingdom of Albania’s fascist regime considered education as one of the pillars of its policy in Kosovo and Metohija during World War II. With the aim of spreading and strengthening Albanian national identity and culture, several hundreds of educators were sent from the “Old Albania” to Kosovo and Metohija. The Italian occupation authorities were not supportive of the educational policy pursued by the officials in Tirana, which often resulted in disagreement between the two sides. After liberating the province in 1944, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia decided to keep the teachers and educators who misused their positions to serve the Greater Albania cause, as there was no available staff to replace them. The paper is based primarily on the unpublished sources from the Central State Archives of Albania in Tirana, the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade, the Archives of Serbia, and the Archives of Yugoslavia.