When Fan Noley wrote Hitler a letter to save his life...

Naziism is known to have committed terrible crimes against Jews by torturing, killing, and imprisonment under terrible conditions.

Among the millions of Jews who were killed were Albanologist Norbert Jokley.

Jokley's arrest by Nazi forces brought back Fan Noley's reaction. In 1942, Noley was one of those people who tried to escape the Nazism of the Norbert Jokles.

Norbert Jokles was Austrian albanologist of Jewish descent, one of the founders of albanology. He was a professor at the University of Vienna. A very important personality for Albania. Jokley was then arrested by Gestapo forces and placed in Nazi concentration camps.

Fan Noley decided to write Adolf Hitler a prayer on behalf of all Albanians to save the Jewish albanologist Norbert Jokles, the letter posted by the 27.al portal.

Here are the letters:

Albanian people in their country and abroad are concerned about the deteriorating health of the retired professor of Vienna University, Dr. Norbert Jokel, the most vivid authority in Albanian philology and the most excellent pass of a long line of German scholars, who have done a priceless pioneer work for Albania's history, literature and folklore. On behalf of all Albanians, I call on your excellence to help this great albanologist in any appropriate way in the present difficult conditions.

Bishop Fan S. Noli

Who was Norbert Jokles:

Norbert Jokles is author of the books “Studies on the ettimology and interpretation of Albanian” and “Cultural Historical Recytics from the Albanian field”. Jokles created an Albanology and Indoganism library with about 3,000 specimens of books, of which today have saved fewer than 200 pieces. Among other things, he preserved the manuscript of an e astimological dictionary of the Albanian language, which was the ideal continuation of G. Meier.

Norbert Jokles had close ties with Albanian intellectuals of the time, such as Faik Konica, Aleksander Juvani, Ernest Koliqi and Gjergj Fisha. Fishta's great fan, Konica, Sciroi, Naim and Bektasyan tradition, connoisseur of De Rada and Arberes, sympathiser of Shannon and Kolic, Jokley had a heavy literature with many Albanian cultural and political personalities. In 1937 he had once visited Albania, where, on the 25th anniversary of the declaration of independence, he was received with honours and was honoured with the “Order of Skenderbeu”.

Despite Albania's numerous efforts, Norbert Jokli was arrested by the Gestapo on March 4th 1942 in his residence in Vienna. He passed away because of torture in Nazi death camps.