Provenance unknown
During the war he became a member of the Evangelical resistance group led by Graf Moltke which was involved in plotting against Hitler. After the failure of the assassination attempt on Hitler in June, 1944, Gerstenmaier was arrested and sentenced to seven years' hard labour, but was rescued by the advancing American army.
Microfilm
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Use MF Doc 54/ Reel 32
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List of documents in the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz on German exiles, 1933-1945 The collection also includes some copy documentation regarding the activities of Prinz Max zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Siegfried Rädel, c1943.
Germans in exile: List of documents