Chapter 718: Stalin's Son (1)

As soon as Yannick picked up the phone, Guderian's excited voice came from the other end of the phone. "Your Highness, we have captured Yakov Dzhugashvili!"

Yakov Dzhugashvili? Isn't he Stalin's eldest son? ! Yannick almost jumped up with excitement. "when?!"

"Our army captured a group of Soviet soldiers during the battle in Veliky Luki Town two days ago. We discovered this this morning when we were building prisoner files."

"Great, send him over immediately!"

Yannick, who calmed down after the excitement, couldn't help but shake his head, so what if Stalin's eldest son was caught? Stalin would not surrender because of this. Yakov in the original time and space did not die in a German prisoner of war camp.

Yakov, who was captured at that time, was sent to the Overagox concentration camp in Lübeck, Germany, and later transferred to the Saxony concentration camp. He died in the concentration camp on April 15, 1943.

As for the cause of his death, there are different opinions.

The first theory is that Yakov committed suicide in the concentration camp. Relevant people analyzed that Yakov was unyielding in prison, but Stalin accused him of "treason" (after Yakov was captured, Stalin immediately ordered the arrest of Yakov's wife, uncle, aunt and family. Will Yakov's uncle and aunt were declared traitors and executed; Yakov's wife was accused by Yulia of being a "family member of a traitor to the motherland" and was exiled). Being subjected to all kinds of surveillance and torture in prison had already brought him to the brink of collapse. Now that he was charged with false charges, he was so angry that he simply committed suicide.

The second theory is that Yakov was shot to death by German soldiers while escaping from prison.

In the winter of 1942, under the city of Stalingrad, the German Sixth Army was encircled by the Soviet army and had suffered all losses. In desperation, Marshal Paulus, the commander of the army, could only disobey Hitler's order and surrender to the Soviet army. . Paulus's rank of marshal was specially awarded by Mustache before he surrendered, which meant that he would not surrender until his death. However, Paulus chose to surrender. This was a great shame for the arrogant Mustache. . Therefore, he prepared to get Paulus back by exchanging hostages. Of course, this move was not to protect his marshal, but to send Paulus to a military court as a warning to others.

In exchange, it was Stalin's son Yakov.

Stalin flatly rejected this proposal and left a very classic saying in World War II: "I will not exchange an enemy marshal for a soldier!"

This news reached Yakov's ears. The harsh environment made him unbearable, and his father had no idea of ​​rescuing him, so he rushed directly to the barbed wire fence of the concentration camp and was shot to death by German soldiers 20 times.

The third theory is that Yakov was murdered by agents in the concentration camp, because at this time the war situation had changed. Faced with various tortures and tortures in Germany, Yakov always refused to bow his head, and Stalin had no intention of exchange, so Just shoot him secretly.

The fourth theory is that Professor John Erikson, an authority on the Soviet-German war, and some Russian researchers concluded that Yakov committed suicide, but the real cause of Yakov's suicide was the "Katyn Massacre" ".

A large number of documents and manuscripts show that while Yakov was imprisoned, he became close friends with the Poles and twice planned to escape from the concentration camp with them. Although he failed, he also forged a deep friendship. In 1943, the German army exhumed the bodies of murdered Polish officers, and newspapers immediately disclosed the Katyn Forest Massacre (a mass execution of Polish officers held in a prisoner camp near Smolensk by the Soviet Union during World War II). They claimed that the Soviet Union had fabricated a big lie and blamed Germany for the tragedy. A concentration camp soldier showed Yakov the newspaper and ridiculed him. Yakov was deeply stimulated and lingered in extreme pain for a month before finally choosing to commit suicide.

Professor Erikson said that the concentration camp guards did fire four shots at Yakov, but the bullets actually hit Yakov's body. They did this to claim credit from their master, Heinrich Himmler. "In fact, despair and grief were what led to his suicide."

However, Yannick did not cancel the order, and soon Stalin's eldest son was sent to the Berlin Palace. Although he was given a new set of clothes before coming here, he looked downcast and depressed. Of course, no one who is a prisoner would be in high spirits and high spirits.

Yannick greeted him enthusiastically and extended his hand. "Ah ha, brother Yakov, long time no see." In fact, the two of them had never met before. He held the somewhat confused Yakov's hand, and patted his shoulder affectionately with the other hand. "How have you been lately?"

Click~click~

The sound of a camera shutter was heard from the side. After taking several photos at once, Annie took the camera and walked out of the living room.

"Come, brother Yakov, let's sit down and talk slowly. You won't be able to go back for a while anyway, and you have plenty of time." Yannick asked him to sit on the sofa and sat on the sofa opposite. "Brother Yakov, how does it feel to be a prisoner?"

"..." The beard at the corner of Yakov's mouth twitched slightly, but he did not speak.

Yannick continued to talk to himself. "I think you should know that this war should not have happened. It's all your father's fault. Haha, I hope you don't mind me scolding your father. I know your father doesn't like you, and you don't like him much. He likes your brother Vasily Zhugashvili more; as far as I know, Vasily is already the deputy chief of staff of the Soviet Air Force. Look at you, you have to fight on the front line in person, and you don't get any care."

"..." Yakov's eyes flashed a complicated look, but he still kept silent.

"Where were you just talking? The war between Germany and the Soviet Union was completely provoked by your father. You also know how well we cooperated before. We helped you build roads, warships, and factories; and your father, who was always thinking about stabbing us in the back, was simply despicable and shameless."

"Don't say that about my father. Everything my father did was for the Soviet Union!" Yakov retorted in a hoarse voice.

"Oh? Really?" Yannick's face showed a sneer. "What a high-sounding reason, what a ridiculous excuse! For the sake of the Soviet Union, you can openly form an alliance with imperialism and capitalism? You haven't forgotten what your Criminal Code says? Article 58, paragraph 4, "provides any assistance to the international bourgeoisie". Those with serious circumstances will be sentenced to death! Is your father's case a minor or serious one? If your revolutionary mentor Ulyanov were still alive, what would he think? I think so! Your father's behavior of pushing the entire Soviet Union onto the battlefield for his own selfish interests is simply a betrayal of the Soviet Union."