Byelorussian collaboration with Nazi Germany

During World War II, some Belarusians collaborated with the invading Axis powers.

However, memories of Soviet repressions in Belarus and collectivization, as well as of the polonization and discrimination against Belarusians under the Second Polish Republic were still fresh.

The real power was held by the German civil and military administrations.

The Belarusian National Socialist Party was banned by the Polish authorities in 1937.

Party leaders left for Berlin and became among the first advisers to the Germans at the onset of Operation Barbarossa.

Belarusian Central Council , a pro-Nazi semi-government of Belarus operating from Minsk 22 January 1944.
Headquarters of the Belarusian Central Rada June 1943.
Minsk training base in 1942, leaders of the Schutzmannschaft Battalions 102 and 115, as well as the Battalion 118 ready for service in Reichskommissariat Ostland
German-collaborationist Biełaruskaja Krajovaja Abarona , Minsk , June 1944.