[2] Formally the BNP introduced itself as a patriotic undercover organization fighting for the independence of Belarus, but as a matter of fact its leadership cooperated with the German Abwehr from the very beginning.
[3] The BNP started its practical activity in June 1944[4] by creating several undercover guerrilla troops in Belarus to fight against the approaching Red Army.
As its political programme the BNP proposed to use the "inevitable conflict" between the USSR and its Western Allies after the victory over Germany in the Second World War to gain independence for Belarus.
After evacuation in 1944, the Foreign Sector of the BNP was created in Germany, led by Dźmitry Kasmovič.
The BNP especially criticized the badly organized evacuation and practical liquidation of the Biełaruskaja Krajovaja Abarona, the military of the BCR, and Astroŭski's inefficient attempts to create a Belarusian army in Germany.