Disappointment at the failed Serbianization of Kosovo was also reflected in the memorandum written by the Serbian nationalist Vasa Čubrilović in 1937, which deals with further action in Kosovo. In “Iseljavanje Arnauta”, the historian represented the conviction that the “Albanian problem” could only be solved by violence to the satisfaction of the Serbs. The methods used to date to marginalize the Muslim-Albanian population have failed because “ethnic problems have been attempted to be solved using Western methods”. In the Balkans, however, one is prepared for stricter procedures, as shown by the population exchange of one million orthodox Christians for 400,000 Muslims agreed between Greece and Turkey in 1922.
“If Germany expels tens of thousands of Jews and Russia was able to transfer millions of people from one part of the continent to another, the expulsion of a few hundred thousand Albanians will not lead to the outbreak of a world war.”
In contrast to the previous unsuccessful colonization projects, the subsequent resettlement would be successful because the houses and chattels that the Albanians would have to leave behind could now be made available to the colonists. In addition, Čubrilović pleaded for the establishment of compulsory service for Yugoslav youth to support the new settlers. He expressly named Adolf Hitler’s Reich Labor Service as a model.
The expulsion of the Muslim population from Yugoslavia was arranged in 1938. According to an agreement concluded with the Turkish government in 1938, around 200,000 Albanians, Turks and Muslims from Kosovo and Macedonia were to be resettled in those sparsely populated regions of Anatolia that formed the border area with the densely populated Kurdish border region.Disappointment at the failed Serbianization of Kosovo was also reflected in the memorandum written by the Serbian nationalist Vasa Čubrilović in 1937, which deals with further action in Kosovo. In “Iseljavanje Arnauta”, the historian represented the conviction that the “Albanian problem” could only be solved by violence to the satisfaction of the Serbs. The methods used to date to marginalize the Muslim-Albanian population have failed because “ethnic problems have been attempted to be solved using Western methods”. In the Balkans, however, one is prepared for stricter procedures, as shown by the population exchange of one million orthodox Christians for 400,000 Muslims agreed between Greece and Turkey in 1922.
“If Germany expels tens of thousands of Jews and Russia was able to transfer millions of people from one part of the continent to another, the expulsion of a few hundred thousand Albanians will not lead to the outbreak of a world war.”
In contrast to the previous unsuccessful colonization projects, the subsequent resettlement would be successful because the houses and chattels that the Albanians would have to leave behind could now be made available to the colonists. In addition, Čubrilović pleaded for the establishment of compulsory service for Yugoslav youth to support the new settlers. He expressly named Adolf Hitler’s Reich Labor Service as a model.
The expulsion of the Muslim population from Yugoslavia was arranged in 1938. According to an agreement concluded with the Turkish government in 1938, around 200,000 Albanians, Turks and Muslims from Kosovo and Macedonia were to be resettled in those sparsely populated regions of Anatolia that formed the border area with the densely populated Kurdish border region.public