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Why was BletchleyPark able to break the Enigma codes?
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Why was Bletchley Park able to break the Enigma codes? In 1940 the people at Bletchley Park broke the enigma code. Contributing to their success were six main points. They cracked the enigma code with the help of previous work that had been carried out by in November by Hans Thilo Schmidt who got his French spymasters, Rodolphe Lemoine and Gustave Bertrand, to photograph the enigma operating manuals, which Schmidt had 'borrowed' from a safe in the German Defense Ministry Cipher Office. In December 1932 the polish Cryptographer Marian Rejewski worked out the wiring for inside the Enigma cipher machine thanks to the documents supplied by Hans Thilo Schmidt. The Poles tell the French and British that they had already been monitoring the German messages and had built an enigma machine and were reading the messages and had been doing so between 1933 till 1938. They admit that they are not...
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