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Enigma machine Summary

Device used by the German military to encode strategic messages before and during World War II.

The Enigma code was first broken by the Poles in the early 1930s, so that German messages were eventually intercepted and deciphered by Allied code-breakers during the war. (&Seealso; Ultra.)

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