Mind-Blowing Facts About the Enigma Machine 🧠

The Enigma Machine was an advanced cipher or coding machine, developed in Germany after World War I. The Germans mistakenly believed the Allies would not be able to break the codes. The machine was used to send top secret messages. It used a system of replacing one letter with another, and sent the messages using a standard Morse code transmitter. The Allies found it very difficult to decipher the codes, often going for months without doing so. The German Navy’s enigma messages were not deciphered for 4 years, from 1937 to 1941. About 100,000 Enigma Machines were made. After World War II, the British and American governments sold some of the captured Enigma Machines.