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Breaking The Code
THE ENIGMA MACHINE
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Before war broke out in 1939 the Germans had planned a special way of keeping their communications secret. The army, navy and air force were told to encode their messages using cipher machines called ENIGMA.
Enigma could put a message into code in over 150 MILLION MILLION MILLION different ways.
The Germans believed that no one could crack the Enigma code. But the Allies knew that if they could, they would be able to find out their enemy's military secrets.
The Enigma machine looked like a typewriter in a wooden box. An electric current went from the keyboard through a set of rotors and a plugboard to light up the 'code' alphabet.
At least once a day the Germans changed the order of the rotors, their starting positions and the plugboard connections. To decipher a message sent using Enigma, you had to work out exactly how all of these had been set.
In the 1930's Polish cipher experts secretly began to try to crack the code. Just before war broke out they managed to pass models and drawings of Enigma to British and French code-breakers.
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From this day till the ending of the world we in it shall be remembered ,we Band Of Brothers Henry V-W.Shakespear
Eendracht maakt Macht !
GO Belgium
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Bletchley park
Bletchley Park was the home of the secret Government Code and Cypher School. This was the centre of British code-breaking during the war.
The code-breakers were specially chosen from among the cleverest people in the country. Some were brilliant mathematicians or linguists.
By 1944 they had a big team to help them. Seven thousand men and women worked in shifts round the clock in small wooden or concrete buildings known as 'Huts'. Many did repetitive but important jobs like filing or operating the code-breaking machines.
They were not allowed to tell anyone - not even their family or friends - about their work.
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From this day till the ending of the world we in it shall be remembered ,we Band Of Brothers Henry V-W.Shakespear
Eendracht maakt Macht !
GO Belgium
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6/2/2004, 11:13 am
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