Soldier Marshal do not change (4 photos) Bashny.Net

In the photo the battery commander of the 14th regiment of the Red Army howitzer senior lieutenant Yakov Dzhugashvili, the eldest son of IV Stalin, who surrendered to the German prisoner in the Belorusskaya neighborhood Liozno July 16, 1941.



Subsequently, the Germans made extensive use of the fact of surrender the son of Stalin in their propaganda - produced leaflets with photographs of his calling to follow the example of the Red Army of Stalin's son.





After the capture of James was held in various prisoner of war camps. April 14, 1943, while in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, rushed to the barbed wire and sentry was shot.

Higher German command Stalin proposed to exchange his son to Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, who was taken prisoner in 1942. The official response of Stalin passed through the chairman of the Swedish Red Cross, Count Bernadotte, read: "Soldier in the marshal does not change».