Arvid Ojasti
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Arvid Ojasti | |
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Birth name | Arvid Edvard Fagerström |
Nickname(s) | Arvi |
Born | 18 June 1903 Helsinki,Grand Duchy of Finland,Russian Empire |
Died | 6 December 1963 Maturín,Venezuela | (aged 60)
Cause of death | Gunshot wounds |
Allegiance | Finland |
Service/ | State Police |
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Arvid (Arvi) Edvard Ojasti(bornArvid Fagerström;18 June 1903 – 6 December 1963) was a Finnish chief detective of theValPo.
In July 1941, during theContinuation War,Ojasti, who worked as a superior in ValPo'sRovaniemidepartment, was ordered to join a 12-man Finnish group assisting GermanSS-UntersturmführerWilhelm Laqua, the commander ofEinsatzkommando Finnland,inKirkenes, Norway.He was involved in the transfer of prisoners of war and executions. In the fall of 1941, men from the Finnish group worked inNazi concentration camps in Norway.Some of them also moved with the Germans to the Soviet side inKarelia,where they supervised the local population and hunted for communists. At the end of the Continuation War and Finland switched sides, Ojasti joined thepro-German movement,and was transferred to the service of the German security police under Laqua.[1][2]
After the end of the war, Ojasti fled to Norway, thenSweden,and finallyVenezuela,where many other Finnish Nazis wanted for war crimes had moved to exile. Ojasti also assisted with the trade-ins of wartime loot. He traded with fellow fugitiveAarne Kauhanen.[3]Ojasti became a farmer, before working as a biology professor at theUniversity of Caracas.[4]In December 1963, he was shot and killed under unclear circumstances by a military patrol at roadblock in the city ofMaturín.[1][failed verification]
References
[edit]- ^abUola, Mikko: Unelma kommunistisesta Suomesta 1944–1953. Helsinki: Minerva, 2013. ISBN 978-952-492-768-0.
- ^Enbuske, Matti (8 October 2008)."Suomen ja Saksan turvallisuuspoliisien yhteistyön salainen historia".Agricola(Book review) (in Finnish).
- ^Silvennoinen, Oula (2008).Salaiset aseveljet: Suomen ja Saksan turvallisuuspoliisiyhteistyö 1933–1944,(in Finnish). Helsinki: Otava. pp. 306, 319.ISBN978-951-12150-1-1.
- ^Uola, Mikko (2013-10-15).Unelma kommunistisesta Suomesta 1944-1953(in Finnish). Minerva. p. 153.ISBN978-952-492-816-8.
- 1903 births
- 1963 deaths
- 20th-century Finnish educators
- Antisemitism in Finland
- Academic staff of the Central University of Venezuela
- Einsatzgruppen personnel
- Finnish expatriates in Sweden
- Finnish expatriates in Norway
- Finnish expatriates in Venezuela
- Finnish exiles
- Finnish military personnel of World War II
- Finnish police officers
- Finnish Nazis
- Finnish war criminals
- Nazis in South America
- People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Venezuela