Editing Sabotage (section)

=== In World War II ===
[[File:SABOTAGE CAN OUTWEIGH PRODUCTION - NARA - 515321.jpg|thumb|[[United States]] [[United States home front during World War II|World War II]]-era poster warning against sabotage]]
[[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant Colonel]] George T. Rheam was a British soldier, who ran [[Brickendon|Brickendonbury Manor]] from October 1941 to June 1945 during [[World War II]], which was Station XVII of the [[Special Operations Executive]] (SOE), which trained specialists for the SOE. Rheam innovated many sabotage techniques and is considered by [[M. R. D. Foot]] the "founder of modern industrial sabotage."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/aug/28/history|title=Espionage for dummies|last=Sale|first=Jonathan|date=2001-08-28|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-01-01|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/the-wwii-soe-training-manual-rigden|title=the-wwii-soe-training-manual-rigden|pages=[https://archive.org/details/the-wwii-soe-training-manual-rigden/page/n14 8]|language=en}}</ref>

[[File:Derailment 226-b-6082.webm|thumb|thumbtime=07:17|right|300px|A film from [[Camp Claiborne]] from March 8, 9 and 10 1944 of derailment tests done on the [[Claiborne-Polk Military Railroad]]. The tests were done to better train allied personnel in acts of [[rail sabotage]] during [[World War 2]].]]
Sabotage training for the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] consisted of teaching would-be saboteurs' key components of working machinery to destroy.
"Saboteurs learned hundreds of small tricks to cause the Germans big trouble. The cables in a telephone junction box&nbsp;... could be jumbled to make the wrong connections when numbers were dialed. A few ounces of [[plastique]], properly placed, could bring down a bridge, cave in a mine shaft, or collapse the roof of a railroad tunnel."<ref>{{cite book|last=Marrin|first=Albert|title=The Secret Armies : Spies, Counterspies, and Saboteurs in World War II|year=1985|publisher=Atheneum|location=New York|isbn=0-689-31165-6|page=77}}</ref>

The Polish Home Army [[Armia Krajowa]], which commanded the majority of resistance organizations in Poland (even the National Forces, except the [[Military Organization Lizard Union]]; the Home Army also included the [[Polish Socialist Party – Freedom, Equality, Independence]]) and coordinated and aided the [[Jewish Military Union]] as well as more reluctantly helping the [[Jewish Combat Organization]], was responsible for the greatest number of acts of sabotage in German-occupied Europe. The Home Army's sabotage operations [[Operation Wieniec|Operation Garland]] and [[Operation Belt|Operation Ribbon]] are just two examples. In all, the Home Army damaged 6,930 locomotives, set 443 rail transports on fire, damaged over 19,000 rail cars, and blew up 38 rail bridges, not to mention the attacks against the railroads. The Home Army was also responsible for 4,710 built-in flaws in parts for aircraft engines and 92,000 built-in flaws in artillery projectiles, among other examples of significant sabotage. In addition, over 25,000 acts of more minor sabotage were committed. It continued to fight against both the Germans and the Soviets; however, it did aid the Western Allies by collecting constant and detailed information on the German rail, wheeled, and horse transports.<ref>[[Home Army#Major operations]]</ref> As for Stalin's proxies, their actions led to a great number of the Polish and Jewish hostages, mostly civilians, being murdered in reprisal by the Germans. The [[Gwardia Ludowa]] destroyed around 200 German trains during the war, and indiscriminately threw hand grenades into places frequented by Germans.

The [[French Resistance]] ran an extremely effective sabotage campaign against the Germans during World War II. Receiving their sabotage orders through messages over the [[BBC radio]] or by aircraft, the French used both passive and active forms of sabotage. Passive forms included losing German shipments and allowing poor quality material to pass factory inspections. Many active sabotage attempts were against critical rail lines of transportation. German records count 1,429 instances of sabotage from French Resistance forces between January 1942 and February 1943. From January through March 1944, sabotage accounted for three times the number of locomotives damaged by Allied air power.<ref name="Howard L. Douthit III, Captain, USAF 1988" /> See also [[Normandy landings]] for more information about sabotage on [[D-Day]].

During World War II, the Allies committed sabotage against the Peugeot truck factory. After repeated failures in Allied bombing attempts to hit the factory, a team of French Resistance fighters and [[Special Operations Executive]] (SOE) agents distracted the German guards with a game of soccer while part of their team entered the plant and destroyed machinery.<ref>{{cite book|last=Marrin|first=Albert|title=The Secret Armies : Spies, Counterspies, and Saboteurs in World War II|year=1985|publisher=Atheneum|location=New York|isbn=0-689-31165-6|page=83}}</ref>

In December 1944, the Germans ran a [[false flag]] sabotage infiltration, [[Operation Greif]], which was commanded by [[Waffen-SS]] [[commando]] [[Otto Skorzeny]] during the [[Battle of the Bulge]]. German [[commando]]s, wearing [[United States Army uniforms in World War II|US Army uniforms]], carrying [[US Army]] weapons, and using US Army vehicles, penetrated US lines to spread panic and confusion among US troops and to blow up bridges, [[ammunition dump]]s, and fuel stores and to disrupt the lines of communication. Many of the commandos were captured by the Americans. Because they were wearing US uniforms, a number of the Germans were executed as spies, either [[Summary execution|summarily]] or after [[military commissions]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Ardennes, 1944: Peiper and Skorzeny |url=https://archive.org/details/ardennespeipersk00pall |url-access=limited |author=Jean-Paul Pallud |date=28 May 1987 |page=[https://archive.org/details/ardennespeipersk00pall/page/n15 15] |publisher=[[Osprey Publishing]] |isbn=0-85045-740-8 }}</ref>