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Herbert Otto Gille

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Birthplace: Bad Gandersheim, NDS, Germany
Death: December 26, 1966 (69)
Stemmen, NDS, Germany
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About Herbert Gille

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Gille

Herbert Otto Gille (8 March 1897 – 26 December 1966) was a high-ranking German SS officer, and divisional & corps commander of the Waffen SS. He commanded the SS Division Wiking during World War II. Gille was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, making him the most highly decorated Waffen-SS member of the war. After the war, Gille opened a book store and became active in HIAG, a lobby group and a revisionist veteran's organisation founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel in West Germany in 1951.

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Herbert Gille's Timeline

1897
March 8, 1897
Bad Gandersheim, NDS, Germany
1966
December 26, 1966
Age 69
Stemmen, NDS, Germany