Jukka Tyrkkö
Jukka Pellervo Tyrkkö (2 April 1912, in Ylöjärvi – 16 October 1979) was a Finnish war writer.
Life[]
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. He later recounted these 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).[2]
Works[]
- 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: The story of Lauri Törn: Liberty fighters from Vyborg to Vietnam) (1975)
References[]
- ^ "Tamperelainen – arkisto". 17 December 2005. Archived from the original on 17 December 2005. Retrieved 1 September 2016.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
- ^ SS-Aseveljet ry Veljesapu-Peinneyhdistys ry.
Categories:
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- 1979 deaths
- War correspondents of World War II
- Finnish dramatists and playwrights
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- Finnish male novelists
- Male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century Finnish novelists
- 20th-century dramatists and playwrights
- People from Ylöjärvi
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- 20th-century Finnish journalists
- Finnish Waffen-SS personnel
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