Professional paper

ENIGMA AND GERMAN SUBMARINES IN WW2

Robert Derenčin orcid.org/0000-0002-3558-1664

Abstract

One of the reasons of Allied victory in WW2 was excellent work of British and American decrypting services. The most known success of the services was decrypting of German messages ciphered by cipher machine Enigma. The article describes how decrypting of German naval messages encrypted with the Enigma cipher machine was not simple and easy and how sometimes just good luck or personal bravery of few individuals helped allied codebreakers in their work.

Keywords

Enigma; Bombe; codebreaking; German submarines; Blechley Park

Hrčak ID:

169694

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/169694

Publication date:

1.6.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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