Editing Belarusian language (section)

=== 1914–1917 ===
On 22 December 1915, [[Paul von Hindenburg]] issued an order on schooling in German Army-occupied territories in the [[Russian Empire]] ([[Ober Ost]]), banning schooling in [[Russian language|Russian]] and including the Belarusian language in an exclusive list of four languages made mandatory in the respective native schooling systems (Belarusian, [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]], [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Yiddish]]). School attendance was not made mandatory, though. Passports at this time were bilingual, in [[German language|German]] and in one of the "native languages".<ref>Turonek 1989</ref> Also at this time, Belarusian preparatory schools, printing houses, press organs were opened (''see also:'' [[Homan (1916)]]).