Bernd Fischer

Bernd Fischer is a specialist in Albanian history. He is the author of Albania at War, 1939-45 (C Hurst, 1999), and Balkan Strongmen: Dictators and Authoritarian rulers of Southeast Europe (C Hurst, 2007). He is writing a biography of Enver Hoxha

Albania and Enver Hoxha's legacy

Albania’s iron communist regime survived until 1990, five years after the death of its great dictator, Enver Hoxha. But the country’s political path since then is full of unburied ghosts, says Bernd Fischer.

By Bernd Fischer

/ 10 Jun 2010

Balkan strongmen: exit from history

It has been fifteen months since the death in The Hague of Slobodan Milosevic, the last of the 20th-century Balkan strongmen. The former leader of Serbia had been sent from

By Bernd Fischer

/ 29 Jun 2007