undercover science... the enigma machine
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During World War 2, secret military communication reached fever pitch. Instructions to armies, air forces and fleets were sent by radio, so the air over Europe was full of easily-interceptible messages. The key was whether or not they could be deciphered, and millions of lives depended on that.
The Enigma Machine was an ingenious invention that the Germans developed to enable them to encipher and decipher messages quickly and accurately with a high degree of complexity. ‘Unbreakable’ is how they described the Enigma code. Fortunately for the Allies, they were wrong…
A real Enigma machine looks a bit like a jumbo-sized typewriter, but here’s an online version you can try that’ll give you the idea.
Follow the link to Bletchley Park - this was where the British code-crackers finally made the breakthrough that won the war.
If you fancy yourself as a code-meister and have a knack for tracking down information why not find your way to our Bletchley Park Cracking Quiz.
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