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David Patterson, a historian specializing in anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, writes that the division "played a major role in rendering the Balkans Judenrein in the winter of 1943–1944." (Patterson, 2005, p96).
If this was true it would be extensively documented like all other aspects of the Holocaust, yet Patterson provides no source. The simplest way to see that the claim is just poor scholarship is to note that the "winter of 1943–1944" was already well over before Skanderberg was formed; i.e., the claim is chronologically impossible. There is a later incident involving Jews mentioned in our article already but Patterson fails to mention it.
The background is that this occurs in a chapter where Patterson essentially identifies Islam with antisemitic Jihad [1] and is happy to cite the mostabsurdsources to prove it. The book, by the way, is full of bizarre claims starting with its central thesis that antisemitism is motivated by the desire to kill God and that racism is a subset of antisemitism rather than the other way around.
The same impossible claim about Skanderberg appears in another of Patterson's books (Genealogy of Evil), again without citation; see here for two reviews that are among the worst I've ever seen for an academic book. More quotations from reviews of Patterson's books are here.
Leaving the claims about Patterson's reliability aside, the cited material is sloppy in any case, as I'm not aware of any source implicating the division in rounding up Jews until May, which is hardly winter. I have removed it as a source and moved a few currently unused sources to the FR section. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:36, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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