this judgement were those who were conscripted into the Waffen-SS and had not personally committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. During the Kosovo War of 1998–1999, the American journalist Chris Hedges alleged that some Kosovo Liberation Army leaders were directly descended from members of the division and were ideologically influenced by it. Malcolm has challenged this claim. Insignia The division's identification symbol was the Albanian double-headed eagle. Despite its short existence, a collar patch depicting a goat-crested helmet was manufactured for the division but there is no evidence that it was ever used. Photographs exist of a machine-woven cuff band with the title Skanderbeg, but this was awarded to the 14th SS Volunteer Gebirgsjäger Regiment of the 7th SS Division in the latter part of 1944, and not to this division. Members of the cadre staff were photographed wearing an Albanian arm shield depicting a black Albanian double-headed eagle on a red field. Many of the division's Muslim members wore traditional grey-coloured skull caps instead of the standard SS field cap. Others wore the traditional Albanian highlander hat, the qeleshe. Order of battle The principal units of the division and order of battle were: 50th Waffen Gebirgsjäger (Mountain Infantry) Regiment of the SS (1st Albanian) (I, II, III battalions) 51st Waffen Gebirgsjäger Regiment of the SS (2nd Albanian) (I, II, III battalions) 21st SS Reconnaissance Battalion (four companies) 21st SS Freiwilligen (Volunteer) Panzerjäger (Anti-tank) Battalion (three companies) 21st SS Gebirgs (Mountain) Artillery Regiment (four battalions) 21st SS Freiwilligen Pioneer Battalion (three companies) 21st SS Feldersatz (Replacement) Battalion 21st SS Freiwilligen'' Signals Battalion (three companies) 21st SS Mountain Supply Troop See also List of Waffen-SS units Table of ranks and insignia of the Waffen-SS Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts The Holocaust in Albania Footnotes Citations References Books Websites Further reading Mutinies in World War II Collaboration during World War II Foreign volunteer units of the Waffen-SS Military history of Albania during World War II Military units and formations established in 1944 Military units and formations disestablished in 1944 Mountain divisions of the Waffen-SS Military units and formations of Germany in Yugoslavia in World War II Modern history of Kosovo Albanian collaborators with Nazi Germany Collaboration with the Axis Powers Criminal organizations