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2. Why was Bletchley Park able to break the German Enigma codes? Bletchley Park had no clue to what the Enigma machine looked like and so figuring out how it worked would be even harder than anticipated. However during the 1930's Polish intelligence had recruited a spy who was in the German army and he was able to supply secret documents describing the layout of the keys, settings and instructions of how to use them. From this information the Poles made two replica Enigma machines and just before they were invaded by Germany they handed one over to the French and the other to the British. This was a major break for the British as they now had something to work with. Many other clues or slip ups from the Germans helped as the British now knew that no one letter ever represented itself and sometimes the Germans sent the same message...

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