[1]The organization's charter stressed its Catholic nature[1][2] and declared its purpose as self-defense,[1] aid to the Polish population of Pomerania in the face of German terror, and preparation for an eventual uprising against Nazi Germany.

[1][2] In 1943 internal ideological conflicts escalated during negotiations over the subordination of the organization to the main Polish anti-Nazi resistance movement, the Home Army.

[1] Furthermore, whereas the Home Army and the government in exile were run by a coalition of several parties, Griffin, while officially apolitical,[2] was mostly influenced by the National Democrats.

[1][citation needed] The remnants of the group survived until 1945, when the final order of its last commander instructed the soldiers to participate in the disarming of local German police forces and to provide logistic aid to the approaching Red Army.

[1] Many of the group's members who were arrested during this time ended up being sent to the gulag by the Soviets, alongside the same German soldiers and Gestapo agents against whom they fought during the war; others were executed.