Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Daga 1943 zuwa 1945, ya yi aiki a cikin 3rd SS-Brigade da 20th Waffen Grenadier Division na SS. Ya kasance Kwamandan na 45th SS-Grenadier Regiment daga Afrilu 1944. A ranar 23 ga Agusta 1944 an ba shi lambar yabo ta Knight's Cross na Iron Cross don ayyukansa a Yaƙin Tannenberg Line
da kuma a yakin Auvere inda Riipalu da rundunarsa suka kori hare-haren sojojin Soviet, wanda ya hana kewaye da rundunar sojojin Narwa. Felix Steiner, kwamandan III SS Panzer Corps ne ya ba shi kyautar.