Pekka Siitoin

Timo Pekka Olavi Siitoin (20 May 1944 in Varkaus, Finland – 8 December 2003 in Vehmaa, Finland) was a Finnish satanist, occultist and neo-Nazi.

He was born in Varkaus, Finland. According to Siitoin, he was born to a German military officer and Finnish-Russian woman, but he was adopted after his birth.^[1] In his youth he studied at the Theatre Academy of Finland and was a disciple of Finland's best known clairvoyant, Aino Kassinen [fi]. In the 1970s he became a neo-Nazi and founded several organizations. He saw himself as the leader of the Finnish Nazi movement but got at most a few dozen supporters. Siitoin also wrote books and pamphlets about politics and occultism.

In 1977 Siitoin was convicted of inciting the arson of the printing house Kursiivi which printed the Communist newspaper Tiedonantaja and founding an organization forbidden in the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty.^[2] He was sentenced to five years and seven months in prison. Siitoin had earlier been fined, while convicted of cruelty to animals and vandalism against the Turku Synagogue. On 4 November 1977 the Finnish Ministry of the Interior closed down four of the organizations he had founded, as neo-Fascist and forbidden by the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty.

In 1996, Siitoin ran for the city council of his town of Naantali and came within few votes of being elected, being the sixth most popular candidate.^[3]^[4] Siitoin died of esophageal cancer in Vehmaa, Finland.^[5] He was buried in Hakapelto Cemetery in Naantali.^[6]

A documentary film called Sieg Heil Suomi has been made about the Neo-Nazi activities led by Siitoin and Väinö Kuisma.^[7]

References

^ Mäkilä, Ville (1 September 2018). "Suomessa on lakkautettu järjestöjä viimeksi 1970-luvulla – muistatko vielä surullisen kuuluisan Naantalin uusnatsin?". Turkulainen (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 February 2021.
^ "Pekka Siitoin Was the New Face of Neo-Fascism in Finland [in Finnish]". Finnish Broadcasting Company. 4 May 2015. Archived from the original on 6 May 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
^ Turun Sanomat 26.7.1996.
^ Uusnatsi vei pommin kirjapainoon ja sytytti talon palamaan Lauttasaaressa 1977 – Taustalta paljastui äärioikeistolainen saatananpalvoja, joka oli aikansa omituisimpia hahmoja, Helsingin Sanomat
^ "The Leader of Finnish Neo-Nazis Pekka Siitoin Dead [in Finnish]". Ilta-Sanomat. 13 December 2003. Archived from the original on 24 July 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
^ VLS - Eri syistä tunnettuja henkilöitä
^ "Sieg Heil Finland (1994)". IMDb. Retrieved 12 February 2024.

Publications

Musta Magia I, Turun hengentieteellinen seura, 1974 (Black Magic I) ISBN 951-99046-7-0
Musta Magia II, Turun hengentieteellinen seura, 1975 (Black Magic II) ISBN 951-9360-00-X
Työväenluokan tulevaisuus, Turun hengentieteellinen seura, 1975 (Future of the Working Class) ISBN 951-95271-3-3
Paholaisen Katekismus, Kansallis-mytologinen yhdistys, 1977 (Devil's Catechism) ISBN 951-9360-17-4
Laillinen laittomuus Suomessa, Kansallis-mytologinen yhdistys, 1979 (Legal Illegality in Finland) ISBN 951-9360-23-9
Rotu-oppi, Kansallis-mytologinen yhdistys, 1983 (The Race Doctrine) ISBN 951-9360-28-X
Demokratia vaiko Fasismi?, Kansallis-mytologinen yhdistys, 1984 (Democracy or Fascism) ISBN 951-9360-03-4

Source: Iiro Nordling; Long Shadow of Finland's Fuehrer: Life and legacy of the notorious Finnish occult neo-Nazi Pekka Siitoin. Amazon 2021. ISBN 979-8546175634

External links

English ebook on the subject: Pekka Siitoin; Cold War product, Satanist Neo-Nazi Fuehrer of Finland

Pekka Siitoin; Cold War product, Satanist Neo-Nazi Fuehrer of Finland

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[1] Mäkilä, Ville (1 September 2018). "Suomessa on lakkautettu järjestöjä viimeksi 1970-luvulla – muistatko vielä surullisen kuuluisan Naantalin uusnatsin?". Turkulainen (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 February 2021.

[yle1-2] "Pekka Siitoin Was the New Face of Neo-Fascism in Finland [in Finnish]". Finnish Broadcasting Company. 4 May 2015. Archived from the original on 6 May 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2017.

[3] Turun Sanomat 26.7.1996.

[4] Uusnatsi vei pommin kirjapainoon ja sytytti talon palamaan Lauttasaaressa 1977 – Taustalta paljastui äärioikeistolainen saatananpalvoja, joka oli aikansa omituisimpia hahmoja, Helsingin Sanomat

[5] "The Leader of Finnish Neo-Nazis Pekka Siitoin Dead [in Finnish]". Ilta-Sanomat. 13 December 2003. Archived from the original on 24 July 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2017.

[6] VLS - Eri syistä tunnettuja henkilöitä

[7] "Sieg Heil Finland (1994)". IMDb. Retrieved 12 February 2024.

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Pre-1945 groups	Academic Karelia Society Blue Cross Blue-and-Blacks Finnish Realm Union Finnish-Socialist Workers' Party Finnish National Socialist Labor Organisation Front Soldier League Finnish People's Organisation Finnish Labor Front Labor Organisation of Brothers-in-Arms Lalli Alliance of Finland Lapua Movement Organisation of National Socialists National Socialists of Finland National Socialist Union of Finland National Trade Union Confederation of Finland NSDAP/AO Finnland Party of Finnish Labor Patriotic Citizens of Viitasaari Patriotic People's Movement Patriotic People's Party People's Community Society Rising Finland Stormers Vientirauha
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Pre-1945 people	Reino Ala-Kulju Vilho Annala Torsten Aminoff Hjalmar von Bonsdorff Severin Dobrovolsky Kai Donner Johan Christian Fabritius Petter Forsström C. A. J. Gadolin Herman Gummerus Yrjö von Grönhagen Bertel Gripenberg Reidar Hedman Vilho Helanen Gunnar von Hertzen Carl-Gustaf Herlitz Antti Isotalo Y. W. Jalander Karl Jansson Kustaa Jussila Kaarlo Kares Hans Kalm Arvi Kalsta Toivo Karanko Aarne Kauhanen Olavi Karpalo Yrjö Kivenoja Juhani Konkka Vihtori Kosola Jussi Leino Gunnar Lindqvist Arvi Malmivaara Jussi Muilu Iisakki Nikkola Vietti Nykänen Thorvald Oljemark Johannes Öhquist Unto Parvilahti Martti Pihkala Otto Piisinen Boris Popper Niilo Rauvala Erkki Räikkönen Hilja Riipinen John Rosberg Yrjö Ruutu Yrjö Saarinen Antti Salamaa Bruno Salmiala Kaarlo Salovaara Jaakko Seise Elias Simojoki Teo Snellman Arne Somersalo Paavo Susitaival Paavo Talvela Eino Tuomivaara Örnulf Tigerstedt Jukka Tyrkkö Ensio Uoti Mauno Vannas Kurt Martti Wallenius Artturi Vuorimaa
Post-1945 people	James Hirvisaari Esa Henrik Holappa [fi] Juha Kärkkäinen [fi] Jouni Lanamäki [fi] Seppo Lehto Junes Lokka [fi] Olavi Mäenpää Pekka Siitoin Ano Turtiainen
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Post-1945 events	Kursiivi printing house arson 1986 Oulu airplane hijacking attempt [fi] Jyväskylä library stabbing Helsinki Central Railway Station assault [fi] Assassination attempt of Pekka Kataja [fi] Kankaanpää terrorism arrests
Other	Ajan Suunta Finnish volunteers in the Waffen-SS Kansallissosialisti Magneettimedia MV-media Siniristi Pro-German resistance movement in Finland (Thoralf Kyrre, Lauri Törni, Arvid Ojasti, Claes Purjo)

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