Background
Dzhugashvili, Iakov was born in 1922. Son of Stalin by his first marriage to Ekaterina Svanidze, a Georgian woman.
lieutenant Joseph Stalin’s son
Dzhugashvili, Iakov was born in 1922. Son of Stalin by his first marriage to Ekaterina Svanidze, a Georgian woman.
In June 1941, volunteered for the front when the German armies invaded the Soviet Union. Taken prisoner by the Germans near Smolensk later the same Усаг. The German High Command offered to exchange him for Field Marshal von Paulus, the defeated German commander at Stalingrad in 1942.
Stalin’s answer was ‘There are no Soviet POWs, only traitors’. According to the SS guard who later shot him, he threw himself deliberately on the barbed wire fence at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. This report by the guard, Conrad Harfich, was found in the archives seized by the Allies, and confirmed by Thomas Cushing, a British POW officer, who was with Dzhugashvili at the camp.
Stalin was not informed about the way his son had died by the Allies, who in 1945 did not want to upset him. Dzhugashvili’s son, Vissarion, lives now in Gori, Stalin’s birth town in Georgia.