1st Edition

Breaking the Enigma Triumph and Tragedy of the Polish-German Cipher War

By Otmar Moritsch, Wolfgang Pensold Copyright 2008
by Studien Verlag, Austria

In the 1920s the German Reichswehr adopts the cipher machine Enigma to secure military radio communication. During the Third Reich, Enigma machines are put into operation in numerous Wehrmacht units. Poland, which is imminently threatened by the German rearmament, begins efforts to break the Enigma-encoded messages. Marian Rejewski, a young mathematician employed by the Polish Armys General... Read more