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The Enigma was pretty much a complex machine that the British got a hold of. They got it when Germany invaded Poland and someone stole it from one of the deserted U boats and brought it back to Britain. This helped because when Hitler sent commands out to the U boats, Britain will also pick up the command so Britain would be one step ahead of the war plan. The only problem was when Britain found out one of their undefended cities were going to get bombed, they couldn't do anything because they did not want to let the Germans know that they had the Enigma. Otherwise, Britain would use it to find out Germany's plans and use it to attack one the areas that they are not covering.
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∙ 6y agoThe German Enigma cipher (encode/decode) machines were used by the Germans in WW2, and secretly the British with assistance from Poles & French began to try to crack these codes when the war started. By 1942, the Enigma cipher was being broken for periods of time. When these codes were broken & read, then the information became known by the British code-word "Ultra".
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