Yakov's picture comes from the Internet
On May 8, 1945, Germany announced its unconditional surrender, ending the "European War".
Immediately, a joint team composed of British and American experts entered Berlin .
But when they were sorting out German archive materials, they accidentally discovered all the materials about the imprisonment and death of Stalin's eldest son Yakov in a prisoner of war camp.
As Stalin's eldest son, although Yakov was not favored by Stalin, after all, father and son were connected. If this file can be handed over to Stalin, it can be regarded as a comfort to Stalin, an old father who lost his son.
As experts continue to read the archive, more and more shocking information is exposed. It turned out that Yakov's death was actually related to British prisoners of war, and it began with an Anglo-Soviet dispute.
British and American experts panicked and had no choice but to report it.
The British diplomats who learned the inside story knew very well what the consequences would be once this file was released.
Therefore, the British diplomat Gore · Vivian wrote in a letter to his American counterpart:
"Our opinion on this issue is that we should give up the idea of informing Marshal Stalin about this matter. It is very clear. , it would be unfortunate if he noticed that the Anglo-Soviet dispute led to his son's death."
The American agreed.
In this way, these files recording Yakov's imprisonment and death were sealed by the British.
As for Stalin, who once offered a reward of one million rubles to find his captured eldest son after the " World War ", he was kept secret. Until his death, he did not figure out how his eldest son died.
So what was this Anglo-Soviet dispute that led to Yakov's death? What was the cause of Yakov's death?
On July 16, 1941, Stalin's eldest son Yakov Dzhugashvili, then commander of the 6th Company of the 14th Howitzer Regiment of the 14th Soviet Tank Division, was captured.
On May 4, 1942, Yakov was escorted to the Overagox concentration camp in Lübeck in northern Germany.
At that time, no one knew the identity of this prisoner of war. Only the two letters "SU" marked on the military uniform indicated that he was a Soviet prisoner of war, and he was also the first Soviet prisoner of war held in the Ofragkos concentration camp.
Yakov Pictures from the Internet
At the beginning, the Germans did not admit that the Lieutenant Colonel Obest· Denichev, a prisoner of war held in the Ofragkos concentration camp, was Stalin's eldest son.
It wasn't until one day when the prisoner-of-war camp administrator called Yakov by the name of Obet· Denichev that he was refused and revealed his true identity, that everyone knew it.
Yakov's capture made Germany feel that it was a rare commodity. If Yakov's identity can be used to criticize the Soviet Union and Stalin, it will cause a serious blow to the morale of the Soviet Red Army.
For this reason, groups of lobbyists came in droves to persuade Yakov to work for Germany. Among them, the one who worked particularly hard was Andrei Andreevich Vlasov, the former commander of the Soviet 2nd Shock Army who surrendered to the enemy in 1942.
According to what Westerners said after World War II, Yakov voluntarily surrendered to Germany because he wanted to imitate Vlasov. Obviously, this is a slander from the West.
First of all, Yakov was captured in the Battle of Smolensk in the "Battle of Moscow Portal" in July 1941, while Vlasov was captured in May 1942 by the 2nd Shock Army in Wo Captured during the breakout of Erkhov.
Secondly, Vlasov did not surrender voluntarily, but was captured after the locals leaked the news at the cost of a cow and two bottles of vodka.
Before the Volkhov breakout battle, Stalin was afraid that Vlasov would be captured, so he sent a plane to pick him up, but he was rejected. Vlasov wanted to be with his soldiers. fighting.
After the failed breakout, Vlasov hid in a local wooden house. Unexpectedly, he was locked in the house by this local man and was captured.Therefore, there is no such thing as Vlasov's voluntary surrender.
As for Vlasov's surrender to Germany, that happened later.
Germany concocted the story of Vlasov's voluntary surrender out of propaganda needs.
The West publicized Yakov's capture as following Vlasov, and its purpose was self-evident, which was to discredit the Soviet Red Army.
Vlasov's method of inducing Yakov to surrender was not clever. He was familiar with the abnormal father-son relationship between Stalin and Yakov, and wanted to use this as a breakthrough to provoke Yakov, thereby arousing Yakov's hatred of Stalin. Resentment, and then achieve his goal.
First, Vlasov listed the unpleasant past events between Yakov and Stalin, especially mentioning that Yakov was just a lieutenant company commander, while his half-brother Vasily was already the commander of the flight regiment. .
What Vlasov wants to express is that Stalin does not pay attention to Yakov, but the person who pays attention to him is Vasily. In the future, Stalin's successor will be Vasily.
Vlasov is absolutely wrong when he says that.
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First, it is true that Yakov was a lieutenant when he was captured, but that was in 1941. If Yakov had not been captured, it would not have been impossible for him to be promoted to regimental commander or a higher position within two years.
Secondly, Stalin’s attitude towards his children has Eastern logic, that is, the more he treats, the higher the requirements and the stricter the management. Only the more you pay, the greater your gains will be in the future.
This was the purpose of Stalin sending his eldest son to the front-line troops for training.
After Stalin’s second son Vasily joined the army in September 1941, he was promoted to the commander of the Air Force in less than two years. In the next three years, Vasily rose through the ranks and was appointed to Moscow at the age of 27. Regional Air Force Commander, with the rank of Lieutenant General. Obviously, all this is counterproductive.
All this shows that if Stalin really wanted to choose his successor among his two sons, Vasily would have been kicked out of the competition. It was Stalin who compensated his second son for holding a high position at a young age.
After the Battle of Stalingrad , the German army was defeated and Paulus, commander of the 6th Army, was captured. The German army prepared to exchange Yakov for Paulus, but Stalin refused:
"I will not exchange a marshal for a lieutenant."
It is obvious that Germany is playing tricks in this exchange.
If Stalin agreed to the exchange, it would have a very bad impact on the Red Army commanders and fighters. Isn't Stalin's son a human being, and the other hundreds of thousands of captured soldiers are not human beings?
However, there was a subtext in Stalin’s words that he did not agree with the exchange. He did not agree with exchanging marshals for lieutenants, but how many generals could he exchange with marshals? It is also a strategy to bring back Lieutenant Yakov as an additional head.
However, whether Germany did not understand what Stalin meant or did not want to exchange, the matter fell into disuse.
Vlasov took this incident as a reason to sow discord between Yakov and Stalin's father and son.
Koyakov was not impressed by Vlasov's rhetoric. In the file recording Yakov's imprisonment and death, it was recorded:
"I am still alive, and for this, I feel ashamed in front of my father!"
In June 1942, Yakov was transferred to Saxony Hausen concentration camp . This concentration camp has a separate area where captured Allied generals, officers and their families are held.
The reason why Yakov was transferred was because in June 1942, an attempted prison break occurred in the Lübeck concentration camp. The captured Polish officers dug a tunnel, which was located exactly from Yakov's cell. Pass below.
Although the jailbreak failed, the Germans immediately thought that Yakov might also escape. Therefore, Yakov was transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
The picture comes from the Internet
However, Westerners after the war made a big fuss about it. They attributed Yakov's death to the fact that Yakov learned the true cause of the "Katyn Incident" during his interactions with Polish officers. As for those who feel a strong sense of guilt, they will choose to commit suicide.
In fact, these are the real reasons why the West is covering up Yakov’s death. The "Katyn Incident" was discovered in April 1943. How could the Polish prisoners of war know about it in June 1942?
Due to Yakov's special status, he did receive a certain degree of preferential treatment in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He can wear military uniforms, not participate in heavy labor, and does not live in a large cell where dozens of people live, or in a six-person room, etc.
But it was the experiences in these six human beings that made Yakov die in humiliation.
Among the six people living in Yakov's room, there were two Soviet prisoners of war. One was Yakov, and the other was Vasily Kokolin, the nephew of Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov. The other four were British soldiers. officer.
But the relationship between the six people who are supposed to be connected with the same disease is tense. Although the Soviet army and the British army both belonged to the Allied Forces, their deep-rooted ideological prejudices prevented the six people from becoming friends at all, and frictions and quarrels occurred from time to time.
On the afternoon of April 14, 1943, a fierce quarrel happened again. British Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Tom Cushing accused Yakov of not flushing the toilet after going to the toilet, and insulted Yakov and Vasily Kokolin as "pigs".
The humiliated Yakov and Kokolin naturally refused to be outdone and immediately fought back, and the six of them fought in the prison.
The humiliated Yakov asked the German guards to change cells at night. When he was rejected, the angry Yakov rushed to the barbed wire fence of the concentration camp, shouting as he ran:
"Shoot me!"
Regarding this scene, the German officer Kondra, who was the guard of the concentration camp at the time, Halfey described:
"Yakov passed through the barbed wire and entered the danger zone of the concentration camp. He put one foot on the barbed wire and at the same time grabbed the insulating porcelain bottle with his right hand...while shouting 'Sentinel, shoot me!'"
Kandra Halfey then opened fire, hitting Yakov 4 centimeters above his right ear. He died on the spot. Other guards also shot, and Yakov was hit four times in total.
Condra Halfey's confession was confirmed after World War II by Tom Cushing, the architect of this tragedy.
Since this incident involved British military officers, the British and American joint team did not dare to report the news to Stalin after learning the true cause of the incident. They could not imagine how Stalin would react if he learned the true cause of Yakov's death.
Before 1968, this German file was considered confidential material in the UK.
It was not until 1984 that Poland successively published some detailed reports from eyewitnesses at the time, and the matter gradually came to light.
Therefore, the claims that Yakov voluntarily surrendered, rebelled, severed ties with his father, and committed suicide are either the speculations of those who do not understand the truth, or the malicious propaganda of those with ulterior motives in the West.
Although the real cause of Yakov's death has been revealed, there are still doubts about the entire incident, and that is Molotov's nephew Vasily Kokolin.
He was also one of the parties involved. If he had been rescued after World War II, Stalin would have known why Yakov died.
Regrettably, in many materials, the ending of Vasily Kokolin has not been found. Maybe he died in a concentration camp.
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