Barys Rahula

He served as a military commander of the Belarusian auxiliary police unit Schutzmannschaft Battalion 68.

[2] Barys Rahula was born near Navahrudak and spent his early years in West Belarus, then part of the Second Polish Republic.

In Belarus, he got arrested by the NKVD but managed to escape from prison in the first days after Germany's attack on the USSR.

[4] Under German occupation, Rahula commanded Schutzmannschaft Battalion 68, taking part in anti-partisan actions against Polish and Soviet partisans.

[1] The unit numbered about 600 people, mostly recruited from among students and graduates of the Novogrudok teachers' seminary, usually with a strong Belarusian patriotic sentiment.