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SS WIKING Div. General Otto Gille Signed Letter, typed message from SS/ART.RGT 5 WIKING, 2 Sept 1941, signed by Regiment Kommander General OTTO GILLE in ink, nice clean signature, very fine and scarce autograph of Third Reich SS leaders..
Herbert Otto Gille (8 March 1897 – 26 December 1966) was a high-ranking German SS commander of the Nazi era. 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 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, Herbert Otto Gille was one of the highest decorated SS-soldier of WW2.