Kustaa Vaasa (magazine)

Kustaa Vaasa
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Type	Magazine
Editor-in-chief	Erkki Räikkönen
Founded	1939; 85 years ago
Political alignment	Nazism
Language	Finnish language
Ceased publication	1943; 81 years ago
Country	Finland
	Media of Finland; List of newspapers;

Kustaa Vaasa was a political magazine in Finland. Behind the publication of the journal were Gunnar von Hertzen, Erkki Räikkönen and Martti Mustakallio. The journal was in Finnish language and idolized Nazism. The editor-in-chief of the magazine was Erkki Räikkönen throughout its publication. Contributors included Bertel Gripenberg, Matti Jaakkola, Gunnar Lindqvist and Olavi Linnove. The Blue Cross formed around the magazine.^[1]

Kustaa Vaasa was named after Gustav Vasa, king of Sweden from 1523 to 1560. Kustaa Vaasa was formed with the intent of unifying all non-socialists in Finland, and had relatively civil tone, compared to aggressive and virulent antisemitism of the Siniristi. Kustaa Vaasa wanted to form a "white front", harkening back to the days of the civil war, when "Whites" worked across party lines to defeat the socialists. However, despite the reconciliatory tone, overtures to the conservatives and strong anti-socialism, Kustaa Vaasa described itself as openly "National Socialist" and maintained active contacts with the German Nazis. Räikkönen also traveled in 1940 to German-occupied Norway where he met Franz Walther Stahlecker, leader of the Sicherheitspolizei and the Sicherheitsdienst.^[2]^[3]^[4] Kustaa Vaasa also advocated Finnish irredentism, Greater Finland and pan-Finno-Ugrism (Finnish: Heimoaate).^[5]

Despite being comparatively restrained when compared to Siniristi and Työrintama that pushed for a "final solution" to the Jewish Question, the magazine still advocated for "purifying the country of jewish merchantilism" and making citizenship dependent on racial-biological statement by "experts". Lindqvist wrote in Kustaa Vaasa how the local Jewish people had pushed England and the United States to side with the Soviet Union: "From behind the satanic, cold and calculated plot steps out the Judas' face of global political Judaism and the jingle of the traitors' bloody silver coins carries over the oceans."^[6]

References

^ Hanski, Jari: Juutalaisviha Suomessa 1918-1944. Helsingissä: Ajatus kirjat, 2006. ISBN 978-951-207-041-1.
^ Silvennoinen, Oula & Tikka, Marko & Roselius, Aapo: Suomalaiset fasistit : mustan sarastuksen airuet,. Helsinki: WSOY, 2016. ISBN 9789510401323.
^ Uola, Mikko: Unelma kommunistisesta Suomesta 1944–1953, Helsinki: Minerva Kustannus Oy, 2013. ISBN 978-952-492-768-0.
^ Silvennoinen, O. (2024). For freedom and justice? The Vasara circle as a conduit of conspiracist antisemitism in inter-war Finland. Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies, 35(1), 52–70. https://doi.org/10.30752/nj.142241
^ Tuomas Tepora, Sinun puolestas elää ja kuolla. Suomen liput, nationalismi ja veriuhri 1917–1945, WSOY 2011
^ Jari Hanski: Juutalaisvastaisuus suomalaisissa aikakauslehdissä ja kirjallisuudessa 1918—1944,Kirja kerrallaan, Helsinki 2006.

[1] Hanski, Jari: Juutalaisviha Suomessa 1918-1944. Helsingissä: Ajatus kirjat, 2006. ISBN 978-951-207-041-1.

[2] Silvennoinen, Oula & Tikka, Marko & Roselius, Aapo: Suomalaiset fasistit : mustan sarastuksen airuet,. Helsinki: WSOY, 2016. ISBN 9789510401323.

[3] Uola, Mikko: Unelma kommunistisesta Suomesta 1944–1953, Helsinki: Minerva Kustannus Oy, 2013. ISBN 978-952-492-768-0.

[4] Silvennoinen, O. (2024). For freedom and justice? The Vasara circle as a conduit of conspiracist antisemitism in inter-war Finland. Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies, 35(1), 52–70. https://doi.org/10.30752/nj.142241

[5] Tuomas Tepora, Sinun puolestas elää ja kuolla. Suomen liput, nationalismi ja veriuhri 1917–1945, WSOY 2011

[6] Jari Hanski: Juutalaisvastaisuus suomalaisissa aikakauslehdissä ja kirjallisuudessa 1918—1944,Kirja kerrallaan, Helsinki 2006.

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