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Enigma messages were sent by radio telegram between different german Army units, german Army command and german Army units, german Naval command and german Navy ships (especially u-Boats), german u-Boats in "wolf packs", Gestapo headquarters and Gestapo offices, some german police organizations. The german Navy and the Gestapo used specially modified Enigma machines for greater security than the standard Enigma machine used everywhere else.
German High Command messages were sent using a different machine and sent by radio teletype instead of radio telegram. These machines were much heavier and less portable than Enigma machines but were much faster, so they operated from fixed locations unlike Enigma machines which often moved rapidly in combat.
Messages to and from german spies did not use machine cyphers but were usually sent by radio telegram.
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Why was Alan Turing famous?
He was instrumental in the breaking of the German Enigma code in WW2 (Codename Ultra) at Station X, Bletchley Park. A computer named Colossus was built which deciphered messages: The error in the code was that no letter pressed on the keyboard would replicate itself. The British were at great pains not to let the Germans know of its ability to detect & decode messages. The Enigma machine had 3 or 4 rotors and was highly complex. Turing was one among many who made this detection possible.
How did frankenmuth help the World War 2 efforts?
The produced the Beer for the Germans so that they would get hammered
What was the worst Japanese prison camps for the Germans in world war 2?
Japanese never had prison camp's for Germans since they were allies, but if u mean to ask prison camp similar to Germans, then it would be Japan's unit 731. Not a prison camp par se, but more of a human expt center.
Did Germany bomb the US during World War 2?
They did more than consider it. The US dropped almost 1.5 million tons of explosives on German war targets.
It would have been more important to defeat the Germans or the Japanese first during war?
Germans...I think.
What does the enigma machine look like?
it is a brown wooden box with a typing machine inside, this would break the enigma code, the Germans used this machine in WW2
Why didn't the people who broke enigma tell everyone I said is they broke enigma?
Because they new the Germans would stop using the code if the allies solved it.
Why did they use the enigma machine in world war 2?
Arthur Scherbius invented the Enigma machine, filing his first patent in 1918. Its original intended use was for secure business communication.In the late 1920s the German military ordered two differently modified versions of Enigma machines for the Navy and Army that were intended to be more secure than the standard commercial Enigma machines.
Why was Alan Turing famous?
He was instrumental in the breaking of the German Enigma code in WW2 (Codename Ultra) at Station X, Bletchley Park. A computer named Colossus was built which deciphered messages: The error in the code was that no letter pressed on the keyboard would replicate itself. The British were at great pains not to let the Germans know of its ability to detect & decode messages. The Enigma machine had 3 or 4 rotors and was highly complex. Turing was one among many who made this detection possible.
Why did the Germans think that the Enigma code could not be broken?
Actually the Germans did not think that the Enigma could not be broken, in fact they made many changes to the machine and the procedures for its use during the war to make it harder to break, just in case the enemy was making any progress at breaking it. However they did make the mistake of assuming that its encryption algorithm had no major weaknesses (the Poles and British found several) and that the very high number of combinations possible on the machine would make any cryptanalytic attack even if successful take so long that the information obtained would have no military value by the time a message was deciphered by the enemy (the Poles and British and Americans built large high speed parallel electromechanical machines called Bombes that automated this and could try hundreds of combinations per minute to reduce this time). The British also discovered that in practice many German Army Enigma operators frequently deliberately violated the official operating procedures, making their messages nearly trivial to break in some cases! German Navy Enigma operators were never allowed to violate official operating procedures, making their slightly different Enigma machine harder to break. Also even when the Navy Enigma was broken all you got was codewords which were gibberish without the current Navy codebook, making it necessary for the British to capture one every time the Germans replaced their codebook with a new version, until then no Navy Enigma messages could be read even when they had been broken.
What was the name of the computer designed by the British to decipher coded messages of the Nazis during the World War 2?
The computer itself is Colossus. It was at Bletchly Park, Station X in Buckinghamshire.(Near to Milton Keynes) This was part of the codebreaking of the Enigma code. It was mainly effected by Alan Turing (And many others) The Enigma machine was a three rotor code making typewriter (Naval machines had 4 rotors) which was thought by the Germans to be unbreakable. Its major flaw was tthat it would not encode the same letter as itself, in other words P was never encoded as P for example. The British were at great pains to ensure the Germans did not find out that it was being decoded. The process of the intelligence gathering was codenamed Ultra.
What was Enigma machine used for?
The Enigma machine was a machine used to encrypt, and decrypt, messages. Although it had been commercially available from the 1920s and had been used by the governments and military of several nations, it is mainly known for being used by the Nazis in World War II. The British, through contacts in Poland, got their hands on a copy of it and were able to read a lot of German wireless communication - but it took a lot of work. Just having the machine didn't make decrypting the messages easy. Intelligence gathered by decrypting Enigma was known as 'Ultra'. Much work was done at Station X, Bletchley Park, by Alan Turing & others. The Achilles heel of the Enigma machine, whether it was 3 rotor or 4 (Used by the Kreigsmarine) was that it would not type the same letter as the letter to be encrypted. The name of the computer that eventually cracked Enigma was Colossus. Quite how it was all done is way beyond my field of expertese !
Why that World War 2 was considered as one of the factors that hastened the development of a true computer?
World war 2 saw martial law going rampant. The Germans had developed a mechanical 'device' called the Enigma, a very complex machine, which they would use to transmit important military information after undergoing a process called encryption. Even if the enemy would somehow gain excess to their online messages, all they could see was some un-understandable combination of letters and numbers, which would only make sense after it would undergo decryption also by the Enigma. Meanwhile, Winston Churchill gathered some mathematicians and computer scientists(Alan Turing being one of them) at Bletchley Park to work on a machine that would decrypt the German codes. This machine not only was successful in its decryption process but later went on to become what we now call a modern computer.
What would have happened if the Germans won the war?
the world would be a better place
What did the Germans use to communicate with their submarines?
The German ENIGMA coding machine was used to communicate orders from Germany to its deployed U-boats. Early in WWII, the failure to break the ENIGMA code helped lead to significant losses in the Battle of the Atlantic. The Germans believed that the ENIGMA code was unbreakable. The first break for the Allies came when the British destroyer HMS Bulldog successfully boarded and captured an ENIGMA machine and its code books from the German U-boat U-110 in May, 1941. The capture of the ENIGMA machine significantly aided efforts by cryptoanalysts at Bletchley Park in England, where the main British code decryption efforts were being conducted. Eventually Bletchley Park was able to successfully build a computer that would decode all German Naval communications. This feat, as well as the Allies' success at keeping the knowledge from the Germans that ENIGMA had been captured and broken, led to the major downturn for German U-boats in the Atlantic. By the end of the war, German U-boat losses were 70%.
Who would have won world war 2 if the us did not fight?
the Germans
Would Germans take over the world?
no they learned a lesson from last time
