 Its leadership consisted of 38 members, including 28 Wehrmacht POWs and 10 exiled communists.After several failed attempts to recruit officers into the NKFD, it was suggested by Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Brette that a special organization for officers be set up so that they would not have to come in contact with communists and common soldiers.Two months after the founding of the NKFD, the League of German Officers ("Bund Deutscher Offiziere", or BDO) was founded; its leader was General Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach.