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Britain’s Special Operations Executive conducted abortive covert operations in Albania during 1943-1944. Here s What You Need to Know: Needing Albania as a major source of chromium, the Germans rushed in two divisions after Italy s surrender. When British Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to organize guerrilla resistance against the Nazis, he famously ordered it to set Europe on fire. But those officers heading into the wildest, most remote, part of Europe would be the ones almost burned by their erstwhile allies instead of their common enemy. Occupying 11,000 square miles of the Balkan peninsula facing the west cost of the Adriatic Sea with Yugoslavia to the north and northeast, Macedonia and Greece to the east and southeast, Albania was what the Old West might have resembled had Billy the Kid and the Apaches won out over the sheriff and the cavalry. Its one million people were torn by deep religious divides Orthodox, C ....