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Aug 30, 2022 · While the official story put out by Nazis at the time claimed that Yakov Dzhugashvili was gunned down during an escape attempt — they released photos of his bullet-riddled corpse — recent insight has revealed that Dzhugashvili’s “escape” attempt was actually more likely an act of suicide.
- Austin Harvey
Apr 4, 2023 · One set of microfilmed documents contained a report into the shooting of a Soviet prisoner of war by an SS guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp on 14 April 1943. The victim was a 36-year-old Red Army artillery lieutenant named Yakov Dzhugashvili. There was nothing remarkable in the death of a Soviet soldier in Nazi captivity.
The German records indicated that he was shot after he ran into an electric fence attempting to flee after an argument with the British prisoners; an autopsy showed he died from electrocution before he was shot.
The U.S. State Department last week released the captured Nazi archives that gave those long-hidden details of the death of Yakov Dzhugashvili, Stalin’s only child by his first marriage.
The Gestapo sent two professors to the scene who prepared a document 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.
On April 14, 1943, Yakov threw himself at the electrified barbed wire in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and was immediately shot dead by a guard.
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.
