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Yakov, Stalin’s eldest son, taken prisoner.
When the Germans offered to exchange Jacob for Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, Stalin refused, saying that he would not exchange a Field Marshal for an ordinary soldier. Then, Yakov was shot.