The party was founded in a German Army officer prisoner-of-war camp (Offizierslager), located in Hammelburg.
[1][2] The known members of the "party" were: RNTP carried out propaganda work and published its newspaper Path of the Motherland (Russian: Путь Родины).
The "party" also positioned itself as a sabotage-and-reconnaissance organisation, and it put forward various projects, including the formation of a volunteer anti-Soviet army, but none of them were accepted.
The Nazis regarded RNTP rather as a tool to detect the unloyal prisoners (more than 2 thousand POWs were handed over to the Gestapo by the secret department of the "party"), and the existence of the organization was limited to the perimeter of the camp.
In June 1942, due to a severe outbreak of typhus and numerous casualties, RNTP was dissolved, and 30 of its most active members were sent to propaganda school.