![]() Using the items seized, Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers were at long last able to work out how to read Germany’s naval Enigma messages. The British capture of a string of German vessels – and their Enigma machines and codebooks – during the first seven months of 1941 changed all that. British intercept stations could listen in to these signals, but because they were encoded, they could not understand what was being said. It was used to transform normal German into gibberish which was then transmitted using morse code over the airwaves. The Enigma machine did not actually send the messages. Now extraordinary fresh details can be told of how the Royal Navy seized vital cipher information from captured German boats to make the work of the codebreakers possible.
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