At Bletchley Park, a British government establishment North of London, code breakers developed techniques for intercepting and decrypting messages sent by Germans on their electrical cipher machines, better known as Enigma machines. These efforts, in the long run, may have hastened Germany's defeat by several years, as Germany militarily transmitted thousands of coded messages, including orders from Hitler. These messages would end up in Allied hands within hours of being sent. Allied analysts would complete the decrypts and prepare intelligence reports, careful to conceal the true source of the information. Although this operation was once endangered by a member of the British Foreign Office who smuggled Enigma decrypts to Soviet agents, the Ultra project was a major success and played its role in the victory.
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https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ultra-Allied-intelligence-project
https://www.historynet.com/ultra-the-misunderstood-allied-secret-weapon.htm
I enjoyed reading about this encrypting of messages act. I didn't know how critical the encrypting of German messages to an allied victory in the War. I wonder how the war might have been different if the Allied forces could crack the code. I wish you would have explained more about when the operation was almost blown is the Soviet Union. But I enjoyed this and I know more than before.
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