Belarusian Independent Party
The Belarusian Independent Party ( Belarus. Беларуская незалежніцкая партыя, БНП, Belaruskaya Nesaleschnitskaya Partyja, BNP) was a secret organization of Belarusian activists that was founded during the German occupation in World War II .
The Belarusian Independent Party was founded in Minsk in July 1942 and was led by Winzent Hadleuski , Usewalad Rodska and Michal Wituschka . Its members included administrative officials and officers of Belarusian military units. Officially, the organization is said to have tried to resist the German occupiers and the Soviet Union . However, she secretly worked with the defense . Under the slogan We will either secure an independent Belarus or die in battle , the Belarusian Independent Party has been able to recruit a substantial number of Belarusians for diversionary and espionage activities behind the Red Army lines . In July 1944, the Abwehr set up a special training camp for the command troops of the Belarusian Independent Party in Dallwitz (Ostpr.) , Which resulted in the Dallwitz airborne battalion . After the Germans were ousted by the Red Army , some units of the Belarusian Independent Party fought against the Soviets, but they were soon liquidated.
Individual evidence
- ^ Andrew Wilson : Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship , Yale University Press, New Haven 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-13435-3 . P. 108
- ↑ a b Vitali Silitski, Jan Zaprudnik: The A to Z of Belarus. Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0810872004 . P. 41f.
- ^ Tadeusz Piotrowski : Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918–1947. McFarland, London 1998, ISBN 0-7864-0371-3 . P. 155