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Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili [a] (31 March [O.S. 18 March] 1907 – 14 April 1943) 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 mid-20s, left the child to be raised by his late wife's family.
Hitler gave orders to examine the possibility of a prisoner exchange with the Soviets for Stalin's son Yakov Dzhugashvili, who had been captured by the Germans on 16 July 1941. [6] Stalin refused to exchange him either for Raubal or for Friedrich Paulus, [7] [8] and said "war is war". [9]
Clive Dunn – British Dad's Army actor, captured following the Battle of Greece in 1941 and held in German captivity until the end of WWII; Yakov Dzhugashvili – Joseph Stalin's first son, captured by Germans early in WWII, lived in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1943
Vasily was born on 21 March 1921, the son of Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva. [1] He had an older half-brother, Yakov Dzhugashvili (born 1907), from his father's first marriage to Kato Svanidze, and a younger sister, Svetlana, born in 1926.
With Order No. 270, Stalin commanded soldiers risking capture to fight to the death, describing the captured as traitors; [404] among those taken as a prisoner of war was Stalin's son Yakov, who died in German custody. [405]
The War Crimes Bureau had five major sources of information: (1) captured enemy papers, especially orders, reports of operations, and propaganda leaflets; (2) intercepted radio and wireless messages; (3) testimony of Soviet prisoners of war; (4) testimony of captured Germans who had escaped; and (5) testimony of Germans who saw the corpses or ...
Joseph Stalin's eldest son Yakov Dzhugashvili was captured in battle by the Germans. [30] A law in Vichy France limited Jews to only 2 percent of lawyers admitted to the bar. [31] German submarine U-701 was commissioned. Born: Hans Wiegel, politician, in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Peter Minshall, Carnival Artist, in Georgetown, Guyana
Svanidze was subsequently arrested for her revolutionary connections, and shortly after her release—on 18 March 1907—she gave birth to Stalin's son, Yakov. [169] Stalin nicknamed his new-born son "Patsana". [170] By 1907—according to Robert Service—Stalin had established himself as "Georgia's leading Bolshevik". [171]