[1] The planners envisioned that the occupied territories would quickly pass onto civilian administration; thus, the directives called for the Army Group Rear Areas commanders to concentrate on the security of lines of communication and important military installations, such as storage depots and aerodromes.

[7] In 1941 Max von Schenckendorff, commander of Army Group Centre Rear Area, organised the Mogilev Conference to share experiences of security and anti-partisan operations.

"Anti-partisan operations" in "bandit-infested" areas amounted to destruction of villages, seizure of livestock, deporting of able-bodied population for slave labour to Germany and murder of those of non-working age.

Their records show that in the early phases of the occupation, in 1941–42, Wehrmacht security divisions lost one soldier killed for every 100 "partisans" that died, with the Jewish population making up the majority of the victims.

Von Roques was convicted of war crimes at the High Command Trial held at Nuremburg and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment.