Mikalaj Schkjaljonak
Mikalaj Schkjaljonak ( Belarusian Мікалай Шкялёнак ; * 1899 , † 1946 ) was a Belarusian political activist and first vice-president of the Belarusian Central Council .
Life
Shkjaljonak graduated from Vilnius University Law School in 1930 . He worked as an administrative clerk in the sports department of the Belarusian Students Union and wrote for the newspaper students thought . Shkjaljonak wrote several books on the history of Belarus . From June 1941 he was a member of the Belarusian National Center in Berlin and chief editor of the emigrant newspaper Ranica . From December 1943 he became the first vice-president of the Belarusian Central Council , a puppet government of the German occupiers. He headed the propaganda and press department and helped organize the Second Belarusian People's Congress in June 1944. From July 1944, he lived in Germany, where he participated in the government-in-exile of the Belarusian Central Council. In March 1945 he was captured by Soviet troops in Poland and taken to Minsk, where he was sentenced to death and executed in early 1946 for collaborating with the Germans.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Schiller: Nazi propaganda for "Arbeitsarbeit": Camp newspapers for foreign workers in World War II: origin, function, reception and bibliography. LIT Verlag Münster 1997, p. 208
- ^ Antonio J. Muñoz, Oleg V. Romanko: Hitler's White Russians: Collaboration, Extermination and Anti-partisan Warfare in Byelorussia, 1941-1944 , Europa Books 2003, p. 446
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shkjaljonak, Mikalaj |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Шкялёнак, Мікалай (Belarusian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belarusian political activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1899 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1946 |