NKFD and BDO activity focused on propaganda and had their own newspaper and radio station. They sent leaflets to German soldiers at the
front and POWs in the Soviet camps.
Red Army Major
Lev Kopelev described the joint
psychological warfare at
Grudziądz in March 1945 by the Red Army and members of the NKFD. General
Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach offered to raise an anti-Hitler army from NKFD and BDO members to fight against the Nazis, but the Soviets did not accept this offer.
Some NKFD members were attached to frontline Soviet units to interrogate German POWs and for propaganda purposes.
Other NKFD members fought behind the German lines alongside Soviet
partisan units.[
citation needed] Towards the very end of the war so-called "Seydlitz-Troops" were sent to the German lines in uniform with orders to blend in with the defenders and spread confusion.[
citation needed] Some rejoined their former comrades and others followed their orders.[
citation needed] Many were caught and executed.[
citation needed]
As the Red Army entered Germany, some NKFD members were appointed as officials in the local government of the
Soviet occupation zone.