Simple Sabotage Field Manual — Page 4
Simple sabotage is often an act which the citizen performs according to his own initiative and inclination.
Einfache Sabotage ist oft eine Handlung, die der Bürger nach seiner eigenen Initiative und Neigung ausführt.
Acts of destruction do not bring him any personal gain and may be completely foreign to his habitually conservationist attitude toward materials and tools.
Zerstörungsakte bringen ihm keinen persönlichen Gewinn und können seiner gewohnheitsmäßig sorgsamen Haltung gegenüber Materialien und Werkzeugen völlig fremd sein.
Purposeful stupidity is contrary to human nature.
Vorsätzliche Dummheit widerspricht der menschlichen Natur.
He frequently needs pressure, stimulation or assurance, and information and suggestions regarding feasible methods of simple sabotage.
Er benötigt häufig Druck, Anreize oder Bestätigung sowie Informationen und Vorschläge zu praktikablen Methoden einfacher Sabotage.
(1) _Personal Motives_
(1) _Persönliche Motive_
(a) The ordinary citizen very probably has no immediate personal motive for committing simple sabotage.
(a) Der gewöhnliche Bürger hat höchstwahrscheinlich kein unmittelbares persönliches Motiv, einfache Sabotage zu begehen.
Instead, he must be made to anticipate indirect personal gain, such as might come with enemy evacuation or destruction of the ruling government group.
Stattdessen muss er dazu gebracht werden, indirekten persönlichen Gewinn zu erwarten, wie er etwa mit der Evakuierung des Feindes oder der Zerstörung der herrschenden Regierungsgruppe einhergehen könnte.
Gains should be stated as specifically as possible for the area addressed: simple sabotage will hasten the day when Commissioner X and his deputies Y and Z will be thrown out, when particularly obnoxious decrees and restrictions will be abolished, when food will arrive, and so on.
Die Vorteile sollten so konkret wie möglich für das angesprochene Gebiet formuliert werden: Einfache Sabotage wird den Tag beschleunigen, an dem Kommissar X und seine Stellvertreter Y und Z abgesetzt werden, an dem besonders anstößige Erlasse und Beschränkungen abgeschafft werden, an dem Lebensmittel eintreffen werden, und so weiter.
Abstract verbalizations about personal liberty, freedom of the press, and so on, will not be convincing in most parts of the world.
Abstrakte Aussagen über persönliche Freiheit, Pressefreiheit und dergleichen werden in den meisten Teilen der Welt nicht überzeugend sein.
In many areas they will not even be comprehensible.
In vielen Gebieten werden sie nicht einmal verständlich sein.
(b) Since the effect of his own acts is limited, the saboteur may become discouraged unless he feels that he is a member of a large, though unseen, group of saboteurs operating against the enemy or the government of his own country and elsewhere.
(b) Da die Wirkung seiner eigenen Handlungen begrenzt ist, könnte der Saboteur entmutigt werden, sofern er nicht das Gefühl hat, Mitglied einer großen, wenn auch unsichtbaren Gruppe von Saboteuren zu sein, die gegen den Feind oder die Regierung seines eigenen Landes und anderswo operiert.
Vocabulary
- Einfache
- Simple; basic or uncomplicated matters
- Sabotage
- Deliberate destruction or disruption of work or operations
- ist
- Is; third person singular present of sein
- oft
- Often; frequently or regularly occurring
- eine
- A; indefinite article feminine singular form
- Handlung
- Action; deed or plot of a story
- die
- The; definite article feminine or plural form
- der
- The; definite article masculine or dative feminine
- Bürger
- Citizen; member of a political community
- nach
- After; following in time or sequence
- seiner
- His; possessive pronoun masculine or neuter dative
- eigenen
- Own; belonging to oneself personally or exclusively
- Initiative
- Initiative; taking action on one's own responsibility
- und
- And; conjunction connecting words or clauses
- Neigung
- Inclination; tendency or preference toward something
- ausführt
- Carries out; executes or performs an action
- Zerstörungsakte
- Acts of destruction; destructive deeds or actions
- bringen
- Bring; to carry or convey something
- ihm
- Him; dative pronoun referring to masculine person
- keinen
- No; not any or zero quantity
- persönlichen
- Personal; relating to an individual person
- Gewinn
- Profit; financial gain or advantage obtained
- können
- Can; to be able to or permitted to
- gewohnheitsmäßig
- Habitual; done regularly or by custom
- sorgsamen
- Careful; showing attention to detail and care
- Haltung
- Attitude; way of holding or positioning body
- gegenüber
- Toward; facing or opposite to something
- Materialien
- Materials; substances or items used for construction
- Werkzeugen
- Tools; implements used for specific tasks
- völlig
- Completely; totally or entirely without remainder
- fremd
- Strange; foreign or unfamiliar to someone
- sein
- Be; exist or constitute in some form
- Vorsätzliche
- Deliberate; done intentionally or on purpose
- Dummheit
- Stupidity; lack of intelligence or good judgment
- widerspricht
- Contradicts; opposes or conflicts with something
- menschlichen
- Human; pertaining to people or humanity
- Natur
- Nature; essential characteristics or the natural world
- Er
- He; masculine singular third person pronoun
- benötigt
- Needs; requires or has necessity for something
- häufig
- Frequent; occurring often or regularly
- Druck
- Pressure; force exerted on an object
- Anreize
- Incentives; motivations or rewards offered
- oder
- Or; conjunction offering alternative choices
- Bestätigung
- Confirmation; act of verifying or approving
- sowie
- As well as; and also or in addition
- Informationen
- Information; facts or data about something
- Vorschläge
- Suggestions; proposals or recommended ideas
- zu
- To; preposition indicating direction or purpose
- praktikablen
- Practical; capable of being carried out
- Methoden
- Methods; ways or procedures of doing something
- einfacher
- Simpler; more basic or uncomplicated form
- Persönliche
- Personal; relating to individual or private matters
- Motive
- Motives; reasons or purposes for actions
- Der
- The; definite article masculine singular nominative
- gewöhnliche
- Ordinary; common or usual without distinction
- hat
- Has; third person singular of haben
- kein
- No; not a single or zero quantity
- unmittelbares
- Immediate; direct without anything intervening between
- begehen
- Commit; to perform or perpetrate an act
- Stattdessen
- Instead; in place of something else
- muss
- Must; has to or is obliged to
- dazu
- For that; toward or for that purpose
- gebracht
- Brought; past participle of bringen
- werden
- Become; to change into a different state
- indirekten
- Indirect; not straight or direct path
- erwarten
- Expect; to anticipate or look forward to
- etwa
- About; approximately or for example
- mit
- With; accompanied by or using something
- Evakuierung
- Evacuation; removal of people from an area
- des
- Of the; genitive singular of definite article
- Feindes
- Enemy; person or group opposed to another
- Zerstörung
- Destruction; act of destroying or ruining
- herrschenden
- Ruling; exercising power or dominance over
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