A row over Kosovo’s renovation of the former house of Xhafer Deva, who was interior minister in a Nazi-allied government in Albania, has highlighted deeper disputes among Albanians about World War II history. There are cracks in the walls and almost nothing inside the rooms of the building that has become known to the public as ‘Xhafer Deva’s house’ in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica. In recent weeks, 118 years after Deva was born in the house, it has become the focus of controversy as a row erupted over whether its former inhabitant, who collaborated with the Nazis during...
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