Rudolf Christoph Freiherr Von Gersdorff

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (March 27, 1905 - January 27, 1980) was a military officer in Germany's Weimar-period Reichswehr and Nazi-period Wehrmacht. He attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by suicide bombing in March 1943; the plan failed but he was undetected. In April 1943 he discovered the mass graves of the Soviet perpetrated Katyn massacre. In 1979 he was awarded West Germany's Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit).