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The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication. It was employed extensively by Nazi Germany during World War II, in all branches of the German military. The Enigma machine was considered so secure that it was used to encipher the most top ...
May 9, 2021 · Raid on Dieppe masked secret mission to steal Nazis’ Enigma machine. A new book tells story of doomed intelligence operation overseen by Lord Mountbatten and future James Bond writer Ian Fleming....
Apr 27, 2024 · In 1932–33 Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski deduced the wiring pattern inside the wheels of Enigma, assisted by Enigma operating manuals provided by the French secret service, to make a successful decryption machine.
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May 9, 2019 · The Royal Navy captured German U-boat U-110 on May 9, 1941 in the North Atlantic, recovering an Enigma machine, its cipher keys, and code books that allowed codebreakers to read German signal traffic during World War II.
On the morning of Aug. 27, 1941, U-570, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Hans-Joachim Rahmlow, surfaced off the coast of Iceland and was immediately spotted by a British Hudson bomber on anti-submarine patrol. As the Hudson dove to attack, Rahmlow ordered a crash dive, but before U-570 could escape, it was bracketed with four depth charges.
Feb 17, 2011 · Britain and her allies first understood the problems posed by this machine in 1931, when a German spy, Hans Thilo Schmidt, allowed his French spymasters to photograph stolen Enigma operating ...
Nov 19, 2023 · by history tools. November 19, 2023. The Enigma machine was an ingenious encryption device used by the Nazis during World War II to encode their strategic communications. The story of how the Allies broke the "unbreakable" Enigma code is one of the greatest cryptographic advances in history.
