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[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1972-026-43, Minsk, Widerstandskämpfer vor Hinrichtung.jpg|thumb|left|[[Masha Bruskina]] with fellow resistance members before hanging, [[Minsk]], October 26, 1941.]]
After the victories of the [[Wehrmacht]] against the [[Red Army]] in 1941, Belarus was one of the Soviet republics that came under control of [[Nazi Germany]] ([[Operation Barbarossa]]). The official government of the occupation forces was established on August 23, 1941, under the direction of [[Wilhelm Kube]], the German administrator of the ''[[Reichskommissariat Ostland#Generalbezirk Weissruthenien (Ruthenia or Belarus)|Generalbezirk Weißruthenien]]'' district.<ref name="Wilson-PDF">{{cite web |url=http://mizna.ru/docs/2/1212/conv_1/file1.pdf |title=The Traumatic Twentieth Century |work=Belarus: the last European dictatorship |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2011 |access-date=July 10, 2014 |author=Andrew Wilson |pages=109–110 |format=PDF file, direct download 16.4 MB |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714144611/http://mizna.ru/docs/2/1212/conv_1/file1.pdf |archive-date=July 14, 2014 }}</ref> The German pacification operations were able to curb partisan activity significantly throughout the summer and fall of 1941. The [[Belarusian Auxiliary Police]] was established by the Nazis in July 1941 and deployed to murder operations particularly in February–March 1942.<ref name="geni">{{cite web |url=http://www.geni.com/projects/Shoah-in-Belarus/11081 |title=Shoah in Belarus |series=Death Squads, Massacres, Ghettos |publisher=Geni.com |year=2015 |access-date= February 17, 2015 }}</ref> The resistance movement first consisted of cut-off Soviet soldiers, some civilians began joining them around the summer of 1942.<ref name="belarusguide.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.belarusguide.com/history1/WWII_partisan_resistance_in_Belarus.htm|title=Partisan Resistance in Belarus during World War II|website=www.belarusguide.com}}</ref> From that time until the end of the year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Byelorussia formed courses and offices helping those wishing to fight the Nazi Government.
Already in July 1941, an underground group in the Vesnitsky village council of the Ushachsky district was created by the head of the Lesinsky outpost of the 13th Berezinsky border detachment ({{lang-ru|13-го Березинского погранотряда}}), Lieutenant Kudryavtsev. Underground workers established relations with the population, conducted oral campaigns among them, calling for a struggle against the invaders, and helped unite the locals. Soon it was decided to create a partisan detachment and begin an open armed struggle. The Nazis tracked down Kudryavtsev and one night surrounded the house where he was resting and killed him.
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