Belarusian National Republic (Axis Triumph)

The Belarusian Republic (Беларускі рэспубліканскі) was a puppet government established in 1941 by Nazi Germany in the former territory of the Byelorussian SSR; following the successful Operation Barbarossa. Ironically, much of Belarus was split between other states, and only the northern half was controlled by the Belarusian Republic (including Minsk, the capitol). To not have to create too many governments, the Reichskommisar of the East, Alfred Rosenburg, decided to give Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to Belarus, and combined they had more land than the Belarusian territories that the Republic controlled.