 The United States Defense Department was in possession of documents which indicated that Yakov Dzhugashvili was shot by a concentration camp guard, which were shown to Galina Dzhugashvili in 2003, but which she rejected, claiming that her father was never taken prisoner by the Germans, but rather was killed in battle in 1941.She continuously maintained that any photographs or letters indicating her father was at the prison camp were Nazi propaganda.Galina Dzhugashvili studied philology at Moscow State University, and received a doctorate.