10 Facts About Arno Anthoni

Arno Anthoni was openly antisemitic and pro-Nazi, having close relations to the German Sicherheitspolizei.

Arno Anthoni was born to the family of the lawyer Vaino Ossian Arno Anthoni.

In February 1941, Arno Anthoni became the director of the State Police.

In late 1942, Arno Anthoni asked Horelli to make a requisition for awarding the SS commander Martin Sandberger with the Order of the White Rose of Finland.

Arno Anthoni was arrested in the Ostrobothnian village of Rautio in April 1945, and put into preventive detention.

In early 1948, Arno Anthoni was put on trial for misconduct.

Arno Anthoni claimed to have no idea of what would happen to the Jews, and told that the deported were chosen by Horelli.

Arno Anthoni received compensation for the three years that he spent in pre-trial custody.

Part of his reason for his acquittal was that Georg Kollmann, the sole survivor of the deportations, who lost his wife and child, forgave Arno Anthoni and asked that he not be punished.

Arno Anthoni worked his last years as a lawyer for the mineral company Oy Lohja Ab, owned by the prominent Finnish Nazi Petter Forsstrom, who'd served time in prison for treason after being convicted of working with the Nazis after Finland switched sides.