Jukka Tyrkkö

Jukka Pellervo Tyrkkö (2 April 1912, in Ylöjärvi – 16 October 1979) was a Finnish war writer.

Tyrkkö served in the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS as a war correspondent.

For example, his writings in Aamulehti and Rintamamies-, Suomi-Saksa-, Hakkapeliitta- and Ajan Suunta-newspapers was openly anti-Bolshevist and national-socialist.

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.