A rare picture showing SS-Standartenführer Herbert Otto Gille as the Kommandeur of SS-Artillerie-Regiment / SS-Division "Wiking" (motorisiert) with his medal bars. The picture was taken in 1941, possibly before Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of Soviet Union). The medal bars are, from left to right: 1914 Eisernes Kreuz II.Klasse (Iron Cross 2nd class), Österreichisches Militärverdienstkreuz III.Klasse (Austrian Military Merit Cross 3rd class), Braunschweigisches Kriegsverdienstkreuz II.Klasse (Brunswick War Merit Cross 2nd class), Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer 1914-1918 (Cross of Honor for Front Fighters 1914-1918), Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 13. März 1938 (Anschluss Medal), and Medaille zur Erinnerung an den 1. Oktober 1938 (Sudetenland Medal). The two decorations below the bars are Braunschweig Kriegverdienstkreuz I.Klasse (Brunswick War Merit Cross 1st class) and 1939 spange zum 1914 Eisernes Kreuz I.Klasse (1939 clasp for 1914 Iron Cross 1st class).
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