Paul Hausser
Gille was released in 1948. In the early 1950s, 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 to campaign for their legal, economic and historical rehabilitation. Gille, alongside Felix Steiner, Otto Kumm and Paul Hausser, became an early leading figure within HIAG. In 1951 Gille launched the periodical "Wiking-Ruf" ("Viking Call"). Initially it was aimed at the veterans of the SS Division "Wiking". Within its first year of existence, in 1952, it became the official publication of HIAG and was eventually renamed to "Der Freiwillige" ("The Volunteer").