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azraelle wrote:The Colonel wrote:Absolute rubbish.
If Britain had an Enigma machine in 1939 then we wouldn't have spent the first few years of the war searching for one!!!!
What a fool.![]()
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We captured an Enigma from a U-Boat.
Who is the bigger fool--me, for posting a slightly inaccurate account of how the POLISH were able obtain a complete Enigma cipher machine to deliver to the British in 1939, or YOU, Colonel, who flatly refuse to check the historical facts, or even look up and educate yourself from the links I posted (e.g. "Don't confuse me with the facts--my mind is already made up!")?
Factually, the Polish were reading German military traffic for 6-1/2 years, before they shared the secrets with the British and the French.
Factually, the German Naval Enigma differed from those that the rest of the German military was using, and therefore the existing procedures developed by the Poles did not work on the naval ciphers--so yes, the capture of a naval Enigma by the HMS Bulldog in 1941 did help a great deal, but only in the deciphering of NAVAL CIPHERS.
To quote from Wikipedia:The machine has gained notoriety because Allied cryptologists were able to decrypt a large number of messages that had been enciphered on the machine. Decryption was made possible in 1932 by Polish cryptographers Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski from Cipher Bureau. In mid-1939 reconstruction and decryption methods were delivered from Poland to Britain and France. The intelligence gained through this source, codenamed ULTRA, was a significant aid to the Allied war effort. The exact influence of ULTRA is debated, but a typical assessment is that the end of the European war was hastened by two years because of the decryption of German ciphers.
And again, from the same ARTICLE:Jonathan Mostow's 2000 film U-571 describes a fictional patrol by American submariners who have hijacked a German submarine to obtain an Enigma machine. The machine used in the film was an authentic Enigma obtained from a collector. The historical liberties taken are large, for the Polish breaks into Enigma (beginning in December 1932) did not require a captured machine, the Royal Navy captured several Enigmas or parts before the U.S. entered the war, and the U.S. capture of a U-boat occurred only days before D-Day in 1944. The film caused considerable protests when it was released in Britain, since it effectively transferred the exploits of the real life HMS Bulldog to a fictional American boat.













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