The Prepper Broadcasting Network - TACTICAL TUESDAY: WW2 SABOTAGE and SUBVERSION of Production and Administration - GMA

Episode Date: April 21, 2026

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Self-r-r-line and independent news. The Pepper Broadcasting Network. We have to hit the reset button and create a true culture of preparedness, starting at a very young age and filtering all the way up. Welcome to the Gun Metal Armory. Here's your host, Dane D. What's up, Team Gun Metal? This is Dane from the Gun Metal Armory. Actually, right now I'm using hands-free and I am driving in my truck. Yep, driving in my truck. So what I wanted to do today, I'm pre-recording this on lunch from work.

So what I wanted to do today is I do want to go over some more World War II resistance cell information and how these resistant cells were organized and what they did, how they did it, and so on. So we're going to go over that stuff again today. But there's a couple other subjects I want to get to that are in that same vein. I may not get to them right away, but I will definitely get to them. I am also looking at bringing back some of the products or the product pick of the week that I haven't done in quite a while. There is some various products that have recently come out that I, I would love to talk about and, you know, get you guys familiar with, I guess, is the best way to put it.

So, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, we can talk a little bit more about that coming up here pretty soon. But before that, or, you know, at some point here, we'll do that. So for now, we are going to talk about the World War II stuff. Okay? So one of the places that we left off previously was we were talking about various different types of resistance. And right now, I want to dive into passive resistance, okay? passive resistance is basically things like propaganda, you know, making fun of something like currently

passive resistance would be considered like memes. Y'all see a lot of the memes that are done for one side or the other as far as politics go. You know, that is a form of passive resistance. ridiculing and making fun of your political opponent, that is a form of passive resistance, kind of. Propaganda, again, you know, that's another form of passive resistance. There's lots and lots of different versions of passive resistance. There's lots of ways to look at it. But some of those ways that were tackled back in the day during World War II are some of the best out there,

in my opinion. Now, one of the things that I really, really like about what they did back then was they took a look at every possible option they had for warfare. okay so um you know you got to keep in mind during that time you know the people in europe were just absolutely terrified of the Nazis at the time you know and it i mean this is you know when they started to develop these plans and these um you know the whole famous thing of um Winston Churchill saying set europe ablaze you know he wanted uh resistance forces he wanted partisan groups, he wanted anyone and everyone he could get to fight on his side, you know, and to screw with the Nazis.

So this was all very, very important, okay? The USA, at that point, during 1940, 1941, US was still neutral, okay? Most of the people in Europe were just absolutely, you know, I don't know, powerless, I guess, maybe. you know, Britain was think that they're going to get invaded any day. They're putting up the home guard. I mean, all these things are happening at the same time. So passive resistance was looking like a very, very good option. Now, they say that a passive resistance campaign

needs to be done with the civilian population. It cannot be done. Well, I mean, it could be done with a military population, but it's best accomplished with a civilian. civilian population. Okay. The reason being, civilians are going to be the ones that are working in the factories generally.

Civilians are going to be the ones that are doing the labor work. Civilians are going to be the ones that are doing the types of jobs that would allow them to, what's the word I'm looking for, to, to create havoc, to sabotage the inner workings of any factory or news agency or newspaper or munitions factory. You understand what I'm trying to say. All of that stuff is very, very possible. The other good thing about passive resistance campaigns is it gives your average civilians

something to do, something to feel like they are fighting back. Look at what's going on with the Canadian truckers right now. You've got all these different people down there in that Canadian trucker movement, and they all feel like they're fighting back. They feel like they're telling the man where to stick it, you know, and it feels good. And you can look at that even as a form of passive resistance or more of a civil disobedience kind of thing. but it still rides along that same line.

And no, I wasn't making a pun about trucks. So let's dive a little bit deeper into passive resistance, okay? So the civilian population of almost any country, there are going to be people who do not like what's going on and want to fight back against it. Like I said, with the Canadian truckers, that's a very, very good example of that same exact type of thing. Okay.

So passive resistance campaigns, they can be organized very easily among the civilian population. It makes the civilians feel like they're useful. It gives them something to do. It makes them feel less useless. And the interest. thing that will happen over time, sorry, I'm trying to back up here, the interesting thing that will happen over time as the civilians resist is they will realize that anyone, and I mean anyone can fight back in their own way against their oppressors. They don't have to be special

of forces. They don't have to be a British Commando. They don't have to be, you know, some kind of bad mofo. They can just be your average person and they can fight back.

And I know that kind of thing might seem kind of like, wait, what? How is that possible? But as I keep going forward with all of these various different types of sabotage and things of that nature that can be done against a larger force,

you'll see what I'm talking about. Just trust me on that one. You'll see what I'm talking about. But simple acts of sabotage and passive resistance causes the average civilian to gain more confidence. So let's say you've got a, the average person, and they commit an act of sabotage against a Nazi target, right? Let's say they spread some simple propaganda, you know what I mean, just simple propaganda. And they start spreading leaflets saying that American troops are sleeping with German women back. home or whatever, or maybe Nazi leaders are sleeping with, you know, your wife back home or

your girlfriend, right? So that starts to chip away at the morale of Nazi troops, but it also, like I said, it builds the confidence of the civilian partisan or the civilian resistance member, okay? Once they have the confidence to pull off something like that, They can move on to the next step. So the next step may be a larger act of passive resistance. Or the next step may be a larger act of sabotage. Okay. So, or a smaller, rather, a smaller act of sabotage.

Excuse me. So let's say you do those little leaflets or whatever, you put out a few, you know, you put up some posters or whatever, okay? Once you've done that, it gives them the confidence to move on to the next part of the resistance, you know, that they may want to do. So after they've done that simple passive resistance, they move on to either, you know, larger form of resistance like we were talking about. or they move on to simple sabotage. Now, simple sabotage could be slashing the tires of a, you know, like a Nazi car or something like that. It could be, you know, poisoning the food of a bunch of soldiers. It could be, you know, a whole bunch of different things, right?

After they've done that a few times and gain the confidence from doing that, they can move on to the next thing. which would be a larger act of sabotage. Okay? Resistance forces, they're very, like I said, they're generally made up of just average people that are very, very angry, okay? Or very, I don't know what the right word is,

but they're people who do not like what's happening in their country. Like people did not like what the Germans were doing in Europe. Lots and lots of people didn't approve. And they, you know, Great Britain took advantage of that, right? So they taught a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of people how to resist. Okay. So once you've done that simple act of sabotage, you know, they encouraged them to move on to a larger act of sabotage,

which could be, you know, taking out of fuel dump or, you know, stealing a tank or, I don't know, whatever these partisan forces want to do, right? Whatever the resistance forces,

you know, in Nazi occupied Europe, want to do. Larger acts of sabotage. Okay? So, the combined effect of all of these types of resistance,

and whether it be acts of basic sabotage, big sabotage, any kind of sabotage, or various acts of passive resistance, whatever you want to go with, it inevitably raises the morale of the partisan forces behind enemy lines. It raises the morale of any country that is fighting back.

against the larger occupying force, right? And it gives the partisan forces something to rally around, okay? It gives them a way to recruit more people into their group if they need them, which of course, you know, we've talked about recruiting before and how you have to be careful and, you know, how they did that back then,

how recruiting worked. We've talked about that before. So all of these things, you know, you'll find interesting. All of these things are very, very interesting on what can be created, okay? But in doing so, the partisan, the resistance forces, or whatever you want to call them, they have to,

they absolutely have to prepare for reprisals, for enemy reprisals, okay? I don't know how that would work today if that was to happen, but I do know that there are a lot of evil people in the world. And even now, if you were to resist a regime, not saying any specific regime out there,

just saying if you were to resist a regime of any sort, you could face a reprisal. Now, I don't think it would be anything like, you know, what the Nazis did in Europe, you know, slaughtering entire villages and shit like that. I think that's a little like, woo shit, man. But, you know, I wouldn't put anything past anyone in power currently. Because we all know what power does to people. It corrupts them.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely, okay? you also have to realize too that these acts of resistance also galvanize the resistance forces to work together more. That is extremely important in and of itself. Being able to work together as a team is vital when it comes to resisting any kind of larger occupation. or larger group, I guess, is the best way to look at that. Okay? So some of the options that you can do, like examples of ways to passively resist, okay?

You can obstruct production. Like, let's say you work in one of their Nazi ammunition plants or something. You can basically act like you're an idiot. you know, like you don't know what you're doing. You can basically fake ignorance, like you haven't been taught how to use the machinery you have. You can fake being too cautious and you're afraid of being suspected of sabotage,

so you're over-cautious. You can act, basically you want the whatever you're building to be way too high quality. You can work extremely well, but extremely slow. That's an option. You can basically take anything that you're building and throw it out if it's not perfect. Like let's say you're working within a 5,000th of an inch tolerance, right?

You're okay within 0 to 5,000 tolerance, but you reject anything that's not 0.001, which is damn near impossible. Right? You know, I mean, it's not possible, but you understand what I'm saying. Like, that's going to slow production down like you wouldn't believe. Okay. Um, stopping and checking the machinery. That's a freaking huge one. You know, you're just, you're just checking for any signs of sabotage. You're checking for any pieces of machinery that have been messed with. You're checking for, you know, make sure everything's calibrated correctly. So on and so forth. You know, you want to avoid being accused of sabotage. So you are going to double check, triple check, quadruple check, and after every single operation, you're double checking your equipment again, right? So you're obstructing the production of whatever you're making, okay? Another thing you can do is you can ask questions that are, well, for all intents and purposes, they're ridiculous.

I mean, questions that don't need to be asked. let's say you've got every every company operates under a set of rules right under a set of guidelines okay guidelines you are going to if you want to obstruct you are going to adhere to those guidelines like a freaking hawk do you are going to that was probably a stupid way to word that but you're you're going to adhere to those guidelines perfectly strictly you you're going to never step outside those rules which creates a lot of freaking problems because, as we all know, when you work anywhere, there's always a gray area when it comes to various different things. The other thing you can do, you can basically mess up orders. So let's say you are supposed to send a whole bunch of this Nazi Mouser ammunition to North Africa or something, right? Oh, well, shit, you sent it to Sweden.

Whoops, my bad, you know. Or, oh, you sent it to France. Whoops, a daisy. You know, so anything that's going to mess with production or anything that's going to use up fuel, think about how much fuel those trucks need to go all these different places. Now, what if you send something the wrong place?

How much chaos. does that cause? Okay? So anything like that that you can do to kind of mess with the, I don't know, the higher-ups, you know, the war machine, if you will, anything you can do like that is a very good thing to do. Now, you can also pretend that you can, um, that you. You are exhausted. Okay?

Let's see. You know, during World War II, they have a lot of air raids going on. So you could pretend like you're exhausted from all the air raids. You could be less efficient in your work. If you see somebody mess something up, you know, you could not correct it. You know, like if you see Hans and Franz over there, you know, making something the wrong way or putting the wrong gunpowder in those bullets, well, whoops a daisy, I guess they're screwed, you know,

or putting too much gunpowder in there, so it's going to blow the chamber out, you know, or blow the barrel up, you know, whatever. I mean, you know, I'm sure people did that back during World War II. You know, they wanted to screw with them and screw them over, so, you know, it is very, very possible. Another thing you can do is, you know, or you could do back then, is say you're not getting enough to eat. Say you have a medical problem.

You know, again, the exhaustion thing works great. All three of those things together work great. As far as, you know, other workers go. Like, let's say you're someone who knows what they're doing on a lathe or a mill or something like that. you don't necessarily have to pass that knowledge on to the next guy that comes in. You could easily not pass any of that on. You could just sit there and, you know, tell them complete gibberish. You know, like, you know, how do you tram in the head on the mill?

Well, here, I'll show you. And you show them the complete wrong way to tram in the head on the mill. Or, you know, what if you're, you're... supposed to do head spacing on the barrels. Well, you can show them the complete wrong way to headspace the barrels. You know, there's, or the wrong way to set up the threading tool on the lathe. I mean, there's, oh my gosh, there's so many things that could be done. Now, keep in mind that each of these things, you know, you can mess those things up only so many times before any kind of, you know, commandante is going to be on to you.

you. Okay. So keep that in mind. You don't want to mess it up a whole bunch, but, you know, a little bit here and there, those guys back in World War II, they'd get away with that, right? So, um, other ways that you can, you can, uh, obstruct this kind of thing is you can make, you can complain, you know, ones that are reasonable, you know, especially like, oh, I need gloves for this job. You know, I need a backbelt. I need, different shoes. You know, there needs to be a guard here for this piece of machinery. You know, all these little things. Fill out complaint forms constantly. If anybody asks you any questions about why you're doing what you're doing, give the longest potential explanation you can think of that goes round and round and makes no effing sense. Okay. It is one of those things that, especially if the person question you doesn't know what your job is and doesn't know how to do it, you will make them, you'll make their brain hurt, number one.

Number two, they're probably not going to ask you any more questions, okay? Now, you can also screw with the administration side of things, not just the production side, but the administration side can also be screwed with, okay? Now, if you're in charge or even if you're not in charge, you can do things that are very, I would say mean, but you can do these things, okay? So you can be overcautious, you can be ignorant, you can be really enthusiastic about your job, which, you know, can cause things to go wrong. you could be way, way, way too polite. You can fill out forms, like I was talking about. You can fill out a whole bunch of forms.

You can do it incorrectly. You can, if there's regulations on certain things, like gunpowder, like we were talking about, the Nazi 8mm ammunition, you know, for the Mousers or whatever, you can misunderstand the regulations around that, the pressure ratings. I mean, you can prolong correspondence.

Okay. So if somebody says that, you know, like if the guy in charge of the factory says they need to talk to you, you know, take a lunch. Take a lunch and then take a break. And then forget to go see them. And then go see them at the end of the day. Whoops.

Right? Okay. So you can also be like crazy, crazy, crazy polite. Okay? Like somebody is using a machine, you just wait until they're done. You're being polite. You're slowing down production and you're slowing down administration. You can also make inquiries that don't make any sense.

Ones that are not necessary at all. You know, what does 8mm mean? You know, what is this drawing for? I don't understand why they have it drawn out this way. What is a blueprint? What are these tolerances that they're talking about here? This doesn't make any sense to me. What's a tolerance?

Right? All of these things, all of these things, are extremely useful. Another thing you can do is basically kind of throw a monkey wrench into the, the hierarchy by spreading rumors, anonymously, of course, but spreading rumors of incompetence. All of those things are absolutely imperative. Back in the day,

they would also, if they wanted to really screw with them to, you know, with factories and administration and things like that, report spies that don't exist. report suspicious incidences report danger report anything like that that is really really

useful when there's actual teams operating behind enemy lines obviously you're not going to report where they're at but anything you can do like that they would have tons and tons of false reports

that they would put in there but the reports they had to be reasonable. They had to be plausible. They also, they had to be detailed enough to where they're going to send someone out to take a look. And, you know, oh, well, they know what they look like, with their height, their weight, you know, what the vehicle was, so and so forth. Okay. If possible, try to get someone in trouble that you want in trouble. You know, like using actual evidence if you can, you know, well, that might be a little harder than you think.

That's probably not the best thing to do. But if you, like back then, if they had an extra stint gun, they could leave it on the beach. Okay. Oh, shit. Somebody landed here. Somebody, some soldiers came up through here. They leave a fairbrin Sykes on the beach, you know, with a stin gun. Or they have some C4 or something they leave out there.

anything that will make the investigators take notice and go, oh shit, something's going on here, right? They're going to spend so much time investigating that whole situation that it will take up so much manpower, looking for someone that doesn't freaking exist, or multiple people that don't exist. Now, this is all going to be best done in areas where there are no, SOE or OSS teams operating, right? So all this kind of stuff is best done when no one's safety is going to be at risk. All of this stuff is best to report secondhand if possible.

But if the people, if the person reporting this stuff can't do it secondhand, then the person reporting it, they better have a damn good cover story. a really, really good cover story to explain why they were there, why they found it, you know, what brought them to the area that they were at? Why were they at the beach? How did they find that stand gun? How did they see those soldiers?

So on and so forth, right? So there needs to be a lot of good explanation around that. Okay. There's a lot of various different things that the SOE and the OSS, train their teams that went in behind enemy lines. They would train them to make reports. You know, if they worked in factories or they were a civilian, they would train them to do reports of specific things

to really get the attention to the enemy. So any kind of suspicious incident involving guerrillas, sniping, anything like that, that would be one of those things that would cause a lot of teams to go out and try to find out what happened. any kind of explosives when it comes to roads or docks, anything like that. Unexploited ordinance of any sort, those were extremely important. If there was air raids in the area, German personnel that were trapped in those buildings,

in the collapsed building, any kind of German uniforms, anything like that. any kind of allied personnel in access uniforms or any kind of parachute landings of allied personnel. They would definitely want to know as soon as possible. That is, it's imperative that they know these things. And that pretty much goes for any, you know, occupying force. They're going to want to know what's going on. So that's something to keep in mind.

then, well, there is a lot of other things that you can do in that case. There's a lot of other things you can pull off in those different categories as far as administration and production go and sabotaging those. But we'll get into that another day. Next week, I want to get into how to mess with the, minds of various different troops and how you subvert those troops, how you mess with them to make them not want to fight. But we're going to have to save that for another day, another time, because I am out of time for today. So I hope you guys enjoyed what you heard. I will talk to you

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