Enigma Code: The Polish Breakthrough That Changed History
The story begins in 1931, when Hans-Tilo Schmidt, a German, walks into the French Embassy in Berlin and offers stolen German cryptographic secrets in exchang...
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The story begins in 1931, when Hans-Tilo Schmidt, a German, walks into the French Embassy in Berlin and offers stolen German cryptographic secrets in exchange for cash. His offer is accepted. Among the documents he provides are code books and detailed operating instructions for Enigma. The French and British intelligence services aren’t convinced it’s enough to break the Enigma code, but the Polish intelligence services are far more concerned about a possible future conflict with Germany. They accept the documents and hand them to three brilliant mathematicians: Henryk Zygalski, Jerzy Różycki, and Marian Rejewski.
Rejewski achieves the most remarkable breakthrough. Astonishingly, with only the incomplete information from Hans-Thilo Schmidt, he reduces Enigma’s operation to a series of mathematical equations and reconstructs the machine’s internal wiring. This undercover triumph demonstrates that even a seemingly impregnable cipher can be unraveled through clever mathematics and persistence. The Polish cryptanalysts develop methods that translate theoretical insight into practical codebreaking, laying essential groundwork for later Allied successes.
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