Documentation of the Generalkommissariat Weissruthenien (Belorussian District Government) in Minsk, 1941-1944 Generalkommissariat Weissruthenien (Generalbezirk Weißruthenien) is one of the territorial-administrative units in the (Reichskommissariat Ostland) Eastern District of the Reich. This administration existed between 01 September 1941-03 July 1944. The Collection contains instructions and orders of the District Governor situated in Minsk, an order from General Schenkendorff, German Army Home Front Commander, documentation regarding the establishment of an auxiliary police force in Belorussia, newsletters of the German authorities, guidelines of the German authority regarding the manner of accepting Jews to a position and payment of salaries, orders and instructions regarding the use of Jewish property, correspondence between the Belorussian District governor to the Ostland Reich Commissioner regarding the use of clothing and shoes confiscated by the Nazis from Jews in the Minsk Ghetto, instructions regarding the confiscation of Jewish property in the ghetto, an order by the Heeresgebiet (Military Zone) regarding the obligation to wear the yellow badge, the marking of Jewish homes and instructions regarding limiting the rights of children from mixed marriages.