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Feb 15, 2013 · German documents suggest that Yakov Dzhugashvili, the eldest son of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, died in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp north of Berlin in April 1943 during an attempted...
Apr 21, 2017 · Updated Apr. 21, 2017 11:21AM EDT Published Mar. 04, 2013 2:00PM EST. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin lost his eldest son in World War II. Yakov Dzhugashvili died a prisoner in German hands. The ...
On April 14, 1943, Yakov Dzhugashvili threw himself on the electrified barbed wire of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and was immediately shot by a guard. Whether he wanted to commit...
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- A Soldier For A Field Marshal
Yakov was Stalin's son from his first marriage, to Ekaterine (Kato) Svanidze. As his mother died soon after giving birth to him, and his father spent all his time either in revolutionary struggle or in exile, the child was brought up by an aunt. In 1921, at the age of 14, Yakov Dzhugashvili (who used Stalin’s real family name) moved from Georgia to...
When the war started, the Soviet leader did nothing to shield his son from the war. The latter went to the front line as an ordinary Red Army commander attended by his father's simple words of parting: "Go and fight". But Yakov did not end up fighting for long. In early July 1941 units of his 20th Army surrendered in Belorussia, and on July 16, dur...
As a result of information that filtered through to the Kremlin about the circumstances of his son's imprisonment and details of his conduct in captivity, Stalin soon changed his opinion of Yakov and no longer regarded him as a traitor and coward. Several rescue missions were organized to get Dzhugashvili out of German hands. Spanish Communists who...
- Boris Egorov
Jul 19, 2021 · On April 14, 1943, Yakov Dzhugashvili threw himself on the electrified barbed wire of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and was immediately shot by a guard. Whether he wanted to commit suicide, escape, or whether the whole incident was orchestrated by the Germans remains unknown.
Jul 30, 2000 · Though the official SS report at the time indicated that Dzhugashvili died after he was shot by a guard as he ran towards the wire, it is now known this was a fictional account compiled to...
stating that Dzhugashvili was killed by electrocution and that the shot to the head followed. The document stated that the guard acted prop-erly. Dzhugashvili’s body was then burned, and the urn with his ashes was sent to the Gestapo headquarters. Indeed, it seemed irrelevant whether Yakov was killed by electrocution or by the bullet. Either
