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Tom Clarke RM Coursework Assignment 1: Bletchley Park Why was Bletchley Park able to break the German Enigma codes? Bletchley Park was able to break the German enigma code firstly because the Polish had a spy in the German Army, who provided secret documents describing the keys, settings and instructions for use. This information was used by the Polish to construct a replica enigma machine, and just before Germany invaded Poland in 1939, they gave the British and French a model enigma machine. Secondly, the German operators made it much easier to crack the code because they believed the enigma machine to be unbreakable. So often they did not use the code book and correct procedure to set the machine, instead they used the simpler and quicker way by sending a repeated message allowing the other operators to set their machines accordingly, but this was dangerous because the repeat also allowed...

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