Biełaruskaja Krajovaja Abarona Biełaruskaja Krajovaja Abarona ( Belarusian Land Defence ; BKA ) was the name of the armed forces of The Belarusian Central Rada from February 23 , 1944 to April 28 , 1945 . The Belarusian Land Defence was formed under the control of Governor - General Curt von Gottberg with the help of German special services . In indispensable cases , the help of administrative governments and public organizations like SBM was used . On March 6 , 1944 , after preliminary preparation , the general mobilization of all healthy men born between 1908 and 1924 into the BKA started . About 500 to 600 men from each region ( Uezd ) were recruited . On March 26 , all personnel belonging to the BKA gave their oath : " I swore , that sleeve to sleeve with German soldier , I will not drop my weapon until there is peace and security in our farms and cities , until in our Motherland the last enemy of the Belarusian people will be destroyed . " That day in Minsk , at 8 : 30 AM , in Freedom Square , Minsk , in the presence of SS and Police Leader Curt von Gottberg , the President of BCR and BKA General staff accepted this oath from cadets of the First Minsk Officer School BKA . Analyzing the mobilization , the president of Belarusian Rada Radasłaŭ Astroŭski noted , that : " Germans invoke commissions and for different payments / bribes , free people of mobilization , and because of that , accepted the solution to preserve former mistakes , not to suppose Germans " . He also noted that partisans can dive in BKA , and all personal structure with Sicherheitsdienst needed inspection . On March 31 , BKA battalions received their personal numbers . All officers from Russian , Polish , and Red armies not older than 57 years and Unteroffizier s not older than 55 years except serving in government , police , were drafted into BKA . Invoking was controlled by Police and SD commandant s . The main assignment of BKA was antipartizan operations , and later at front with Red Army . Belarusian Central Government ( Rada ) BCR sent the BKA throughout Belarus except Pripyat river region and town Lida area ; Brasław , Wołożyn , Miadzioł , Volost center and in Minsk region Uzda and Iwenec weren ' t patrolled by the BKA . After evacuating Rada to Königsberg , and soon to Berlin in November 1944 for updating and tutoring officers for BKA , the 1st personnel battalion BKA was formed . Battalions of BKA on Belarusian territory mainly were used in anti - partisan operations and later on the front with Red Army , but BKA didn ' t exist after Soviets entered Belarus . BKA retreated with the Germans to the West . The BCR formed under occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany exists today in the US and president Radasłaŭ Astroŭski worked till 1960 . Most of its members , as members of other organizations , received political asylum as immigrants . In April and May 1945 , most of the BKA and SBM submitted to Russian Liberation Army surrendered to the Allies , knowing that in their motherland a long and difficult death by NKVD awaited them . Later propagandists hold that the Belarusian Liberation Armies 1st personnel battalion in Berlin in fact was a reserve for the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS ( 2nd Russian ) . Eleven its officers , including B . D . Rahula and others entered the 1st Grenadier Sturm Brigade SS " Belarus " , formed in Nazi Germany ; it was sent to the Battle of Monte Cassino , and acted against the II Corps ( Poland ) of General Władysław Anders ( Anders Army ) . BKA soldiers were not trusted by the Germans , which explains why Russian Liberation Army formations weren ' t sent to the Eastern Front , and combat at Western Front .