The 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking or SS Division Wiking was an infantry and later an armoured division among the thirty-eight Waffen-SS divisions of Nazi Germany. During World War II, the division ser
Troops of the division in the Soviet Union in 1941.
A German Sd.Kfz. 251 armoured fighting vehicle of the Wiking Division captured by the Polish insurgents
Warsaw Uprising insurgents inspect war trophies including an armband with the Wiking name
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Herbert Otto Gille was a high-ranking German SS general, and divisional & corps commander of the Waffen-SS. He commanded the SS Division Wiking during World War II. After the war, Gille became active
5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
…Popov during the Third Battle of Kharkov. As the post-Stalingrad Soviet offensive exhausted itself, Manstein was able to stabilize the front. In 1943, Herbert Gille was appointed to command the division. The SS Regiment Nordland, along with its commander Fritz von Scholz, were removed from the division and used as…
Herbert Otto Gille