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On 14 September , Ivan Serov, Deputy Commissar of the NKVD, reported to Joseph Stalin the results of the investigation into the death of Stalin’s son Yakov Dzhugashvili.

Son orgue de stalin biography wikipedia The oldest son of Joseph Stalin, Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili was despised by his father, who left him for dead in a German concentration camp in After his father refused to save him from the Germans, he reportedly died by suicide by intentionally running into an electric fence.

Since 27 June , Yakov Dzhugashvili had been in the army as a commander of the artillery with the rank of senior lieutenant. He vanished near the city of Liozna in Belarus on 16 July On 18 July , according to German archival documents, Yakov Dzhugashvili was brought to the headquarters of Field Marshal General Günther von Kluge. He was then moved from one concentration camp to another for two years and in October , he was transferred to Sachsenhausen - a concentration camp predominantly for political prisoners in Oranienberg, Germany.

The circumstances in which Yakov Dzhugashvili died were investigated by a special commission directed by Heinrich Himmler.

On the evening of 14 April , SS Rottenführer Konrad Hafrich witnessed that Yakov Dzhugashvili did not follow orders to enter the barracks and demanded a meeting with the camp commander; he then suddenly crossed a neutral zone and grabbed a high-voltage wire with both hands. Hafrich shot him in the head; Dzhugashvili’s body fell on the wire and was left hanging on it.

The captain of the guard, SS Unterscharführer Karl Jüngling, the last one to communicate with Dzhugashvili, claimed it was not an attempt to escape, but an “act of despair by a man who was ready for everything”.

There is a version that Stalin was offered his son in exchange for Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, but Stalin allegedly replied “I won`t exchange a Field Marshal for a soldier”.

However, there’s no documentary evidence of this.

In the book ‘Twenty letters to a friend’, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, wrote: “In the winter of /43, after Stalingrad, my father suddenly told me during one of our rare meetings: ‘The Germans offered to exchange Yasha for one of their own.

Son orgue de stalin biography Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili [a] (31 March [O.S. 18 March] – 14 April ) was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth. His father, then a young revolutionary in his mids, left the child to be raised by his late wife's family.

Would I bargain with them? War is war!’” And likewise, in his memoirs, chief of staff and deputy supreme commander Marshal Georgy Zhukov recalled that during one of his walks with Stalin he told him: “Yakov won't get out of captivity. The Fascists will shoot him.”

Source: Yakov Sukhotin. The Son of Stalin. Life and death of Yakov Dzhugashvili.

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