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Communist takeover and occupation of Albania special report no. 13 of the Select Committee on Communist Aggression. Sorry for the many errors due to a bad scan.population vari- ously estimated between 450,000 and 850,000 persons. German and Italian propaganda heralded the claim that Albania had at last secured its ethnic frontiers. Albanian public opinion, however, was not won over to the Axis' cause as a result of these territorial aggrandizements. Despite con- cessions to Albanian autonomy during 1941-42, resistance to the invaders began to increase in the country. Encouraged by the example of Yugoslavia and Greece, guerrilla bands succeeded in effecting in 1942 acts of resistance. The resistance movements assumed later great proportions under the leadership of the National Liberation Movement,