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Why was Bletchley Park able to break the German Enigma codes?
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A.D. Kieran Williams August 2003 Why was Bletchley Park able to break the German Enigma codes? Bletchley Park was able to break the German Enigma codes for a number of important reasons. Firstly, the British were ably assisted by the Poles during the 1930s. The Polish Intelligence recruited a spy in the German Army, who supplied them with secret documents describing the Enigma machine. The Poles constructed two replica machines using this information, and in August 1939, they handed these to the British and French. This enabled Station X to understand how it worked. The machine contained three wheels with letters of the alphabet in order printed on them. These were set in any position, and linked by an electrical circuit. When a letter was pressed, providing the recipient had the same setting, they could decode the message. Contrary to German belief, the machine had flaws. Firstly, no letter could ever represent itself,...
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