Pekka Siitoin

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Pekka Siitoin in 1976

Siitoin being arrested in 1977

Timo Pekka Olavi Siitoin (May 20, 1944 – December 8, 2003) was an occultist and a 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,  [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 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 November 4, 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.

A documentary film called has been made about the Neo-Nazi activities led by Siitoin and .^{[citation needed]}

Siitoin died of cancer in Vehmaa, Finland.^[3] He was buried in Hakapelto Cemetery in Naantali.^[4]

References[]

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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