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Originally Posted by ke0me
wow, that's great info to know.
I've read about the British code crackers, quite interesting.
PS - since I assume that all the messages intercepts were CW, does the German language have any special characters that English doesn't?
Just curious, since I haven't seen any special characters on cw code sheets.
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As someone pointed out the messages were encrypted RTTY for the most part.. For those who do not know Teletype machines were co-invented. One of the inventors was German but he was a US citizen, Same as my Grandparents.
Germany stole the technology or purchased it before the war.
Germany had an unbreakable code.. To this day the code is, as far as I know unbreakable... WITHOUT THE KEY.. The code changes you see with every letter so even if you break it.. The next letter is encoded differently.. now there is a machine that both encodes and decodes the text IT knows how the code will change from letter to letter.
The British Code Breakers... Managed to liberate one from the Germans so they had the key... Which Hitler never knew. Kind of neat.