The article deals with the problem of the use of religious confessions of Belarus by the German occupation authorities as a propaganda tool in 1941-1944 (using the example of the General District of Belarus). It is revealed that during the Second World War, the Nazis carried out a special religious policy. They claimed freedom of religion for the population of the "liberated territories" and used faith in God as a means of ideological influence. The German authorities in the occupation practice attached special importance to propaganda and carried out a special religious policy, which had purely external features of freedom of religion and the revival of religious life. Initially, the civil administration of V.Cuba allowed the activities of all denominations – Orthodox, Catholic, Uniate, Muslim, etc. Lessons aimed at religious education were returned to the school curriculum. The authorities tried to involve the priesthood of all faiths in propaganda. In general, the resumption of religious life was accompanied by an active ideological and political impact on the population of the district. At the same time, in line with the "Belarusization" initiated by V. Kube, the use of the Belarusian language was recommended during the services. The German administration monitored the loyalty of clerics to its policy, encouraged the phenomenon of collaboration in the practice of all faiths, in particular, authorized the establishment of the so-called "Belarusian autocephalous Orthodox Church". At the same time, clerics who refused to cooperate with the occupation authorities, and even more so, who were seen in anti-fascist agitation, were destroyed. As a result, by the beginning of 1943, only the "Belarusian autocephalous Orthodox Church" had a legal status. The Roman Catholic church was declared "illegal"; the Uniate church could act only if it recognized the primacy of the Orthodox Metropolitan; Baptists were allowed to worship only with the consent of the local administration; and associations of evangelists could gather and perform divine services only under the supervision of a representative of the German gabitskomassar. Assessing the effectiveness of the occupiers' propaganda work in the religious sphere, it should be said that it was minimal. The factors that significantly influenced this were the large-scale partisan movement, the Soviet counter-propaganda, the methods of anti-partisan struggle of the German authorities, which were punitive expeditions against the civilian population in the partisan zones, and the brutal occupation regime.