The nominally independent and neutral Albanian state set up under German occupation after Italy's September 1943 collapse, governed by a Regency Council under High Council chairman Mehdi Frasheri with German backing of the nationalist Balli Kombetar; it retained the Greater Albania borders of the Italian period, including most of Kosovo and Western Macedonia.
Collapsed as the Germans withdrew from the Balkans: Tirana was liberated by the Partisans on 17 November 1944 and Enver Hoxha's Democratic Government took over; the last German troops left Albania on 29 November 1944.
The standard English-language history of wartime Albania - Italian rule, the German occupation and client kingdom, and the communist takeover. Verified on Open Library (Fischer, 1999).