The Germans attempted to negotiate a prisoner swap of Paulus for [[Stalin]]'s eldest son, Yakov Iosifovich, but Stalin refused. Paulus survived into the post-[[World War II]] period, and was used by the [[Soviet Union]] for [[propaganda]] purposes to discredit the living memory of Adolf Hitler and establish credibility for the [[East German]] state. | The Germans attempted to negotiate a prisoner swap of Paulus for [[Stalin]]'s eldest son, Yakov Iosifovich, but Stalin refused. Paulus survived into the post-[[World War II]] period, and was used by the [[Soviet Union]] for [[propaganda]] purposes to discredit the living memory of Adolf Hitler and establish credibility for the [[East German]] state. |