[3] Immediately after the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union,[4] the mass persecution of Jews by the forward units of Einsatzgruppe B began under the command of the SS functionary Arthur Nebe.

In September 1943, Kube was killed by his Belarusian mistress, who planted a bomb in his bed coerced by the Soviet agents who knew where her son was.

[9] The Belarusian Central Council only had a limited role in governing, with the key decisions being taken by the German administration of the Generalbezirk Weißruthenien.

[8] The Council had twelve departments including: Education, science and culture; Propaganda and press; Social security; Finance; Youth affairs; Religion; Control; Administrative issues; Economy; National minorities; and Home Defence.

[8] The Council managed to widen the usage of the Belarusian language in schools and in public life, worked on the opening of a university.

Orders were issued for Belarusian forces to be absorbed by Andrey Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army (ROA); but Astroŭski opposed this.

Other members of BKA and the Belarusian Auxiliary Police were recruited by SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny for training in Dahlwitz near Berlin, to make special undercover strikes behind the enemy lines.

[16] In 1944, with the advance of the Red Army towards the west, the Belarusian Central Council evacuated with the retreating Germans to East Prussian and Polish lands still under the control of Nazi Germany.

[19] The aim of the meeting was for the BCR to gain legitimacy based on a decision by representatives of Belarusian society rather than by the German administration.

At the end of 1945, Astroŭski held a special meeting of the "Belarusian Central Committee" which decided to temporarily suspend (but not to dissolve) the government-in-exile in order to avoid accusation of collaboration with the Nazis.