Defendants included German military, police, and SS officials who were responsible for implementing the occupational policies in Belarus during the German–Soviet War of 1941–45.

The tribunal heard the case against 18 German military, SS, and other officials accused of crimes committed during the occupation of Belarus, in the course of the Soviet-German war of 1941–1945.

The higher-ranking defendants were judged as having command responsibility over atrocities, including mass murder, committed by their troops.

[4] Mittmann was ruled to have shot and hanged eight people suspected of being connected to partisans, including children, after various forms of abuse, and a peasant family of three who were killed and then had their bodies burned.

[4] Rodenbusch confessed that "I myself burned down 15 houses and shot eight people during this whole operation, including two women.