Jukka Tyrkkö
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Jukka Pellervo Tyrkkö (2 April 1912, in Ylöjärvi – 16 October 1979) was a Finnish war writer.
Life
[edit]In 1933, at the age of just 21, Jukka Tyrkkö began publishing the first newspaper in Ylöjärvi, entitled Ylöjärvi (now Ylöjärven uutiset). Tyrkkö served in the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS as a war correspondent. Patriotic People's Movement and Blue-and-Blacks activist Tyrkkö sought to build a connection between jaeger movement and the SS Battalion in his writings. For example, his writings in Aamulehti and Rintamamies-, Suomi-Saksa-, Hakkapeliitta- and Ajan Suunta-newspapers was openly anti-Bolshevist and national-socialist. His reports and articles built an image of the Greater Finland and Finland's central position in Germany-led new Europe. He later recounted his experiences in his book Suomalaisia suursodassa (English: Finns in the Great War).[1] From 1943 to 1944 he was also the secretary of the Finnish SS-Aseveljet (the SS Brothers in Arms Association), working as a propagandist.[2]
Works
[edit]- Myllärin tytär (My daughter's daughter) (play, 1949)
- Suomalaisia suursodassa. SS-vapaaehtoisten vaiheita jääkäreiden jäljillä 1941–43 (Finns in the Great War) (1960)
- Kultakello (English: Gold watches) (novel, 1970)
- Sallan savotta 1941 (1971)
- Pajari rintamakenraalina: Aaro Olavi Pajari (1897–1949) sotilaana, esimiehenä ja ihmisenä (English: Pajari as Front Colonel: Aaro Olavi Pajari (1897-1949) as a Soldier, Head and Man )(1974)
- Lauri Törnin tarina: vapaustaistelijan vaiheita Viipurista Vietnamiin (English: Lauri Törni's Story: A Liberty Fighter from Vyborg to Vietnam) (1975)
References
[edit]- ^ "Tamperelainen – arkisto". 17 December 2005. Archived from the original on 17 December 2005. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
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