Albanian Fascist Party Partia Fashiste Shqiptare | |
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| Abbreviation | PFSh |
| Leader | Tefik Mborja |
| Founded | June 2, 1939 (1939-06-02) |
| Dissolved | July 27, 1943 (1943-07-27) |
| Headquarters | Abdi Toptani street,Tirana |
| Newspaper | Fashizmi |
| Youth wing | Djelmnia e Liktorit Shqiptar (GLA) |
| Paramilitary wing | Albanian Fascist Militia |
| Membership(1940) | 13,500 |
| Ideology | Fascism Albanian nationalism Albanian irredentism Italophilia Anti-Serb sentiment Anti-Greek sentiment |
| Political position | Far-right |
| National affiliation | National Fascist Party |
TheAlbanian Fascist Party (Albanian:Partia Fashiste Shqiptare, orPFSh) was afascist organisation active duringWorld War II which held nominal power inAlbania from 1939, when the country wasinvaded byItaly, until 1943, when Italycapitulated to theAllies. Afterwards, Albania fell underGermanoccupation, and the PFSh was replaced by theBalli Kombëtar.
On 25 March 1939,ItaliandictatorBenito Mussolini gaveAlbanianKingZog I an ultimatum demanding that he accept an Italian militaryprotectorate over Albania.[1] Zog refused, and the Italiansinvaded on 7 April and deposed him.[2] Zog fled the country.[3] The Italians re-established the Albanian state as theprotectorate of the Kingdom of Italy.[2]
On 11 April, ItalianMinister of Foreign AffairsGaleazzo Ciano arranged for a group of well-knownAlbanians to "request" the formation of the Albanian Fascist Party (Albanian:Partia Fashiste e Shqipërisë, or PFSh). On 23 April,Achille Starace, theSecretary of theNational Fascist Party (Italian:Partito Nazionale Fascista, or PNF), accompanied by twoRegia Marinawarships, arrived in Albania to officially announce the establishment of the PFSh,[4] which was founded on 2 June.[5] However, it did not receive its constitution until 6 June, and was not presented with an organised directorate and central council until March 1940.[4]
The PFSh enacted laws that preventedAlbanian Jews from joining, and excluded them from professions such as education.[6] Composed of ethnic Albanians andItalian colonists in Albania,[7] the party existed as a branch of the PNF, and members were required to swear an oath of loyalty to Mussolini.[8] All Albanians serving the Italian occupiers were required to join, and it became the only legal political party in the country.[9]
Ministers secretaries of the Albanian Fascist Party
Ministers secretaries of the Guard of Great Albania
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