There were at least two major things that gave Britain’s codebreakers at Bletchley Park a headstart in breaking the German Enigma code machine. * A German spy defected before the war and gave the ...

Hidden wartime footage of a secret World War II code-breaking site in Southern England has been discovered. The footage is of Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire, a secret site connected to the famous ...

BLETCHLEY Park was the central site for Britain’s codebreakers during the Second World War, and is now earmarked for a new ...

BLETCHLEY Park code breaker Betty Webb left £300,000 in her will, probate documents reveal. She helped Alan Turing decipher ...

FILE - In this Thursday, June 21, 2018 file photo, Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with his Polish counterpart Jacek Czaputowicz in Warsaw, ...

WARSAW – Poland is reviving plans to reconstruct a historic Warsaw palace where the German Enigma machine codes were first cracked in 1932 and which Nazi German occupying forces blew up in 1944. In a ...

This sealogged Nazi machine will undergo restoration. German divers for the environmental group World Wildlife Fund were searching the ocean floor for abandoned nets threatening marine wildlife. What ...

World War II ended in Europe on May 8, 1945. However, the war would've probably lasted longer if it weren't for one mathematician and his team of codebreakers who helped break the Enigma code that the ...

Underwater archeologists sponsored by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have found an Enigma machine at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, likely from a submarine that Germany scuttled at the end of ...

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A rare Enigma machine — a German gadget that encoded secret messages during World War II — is up for auction. The device is unique, even among Enigma machines. That's because it has a German ...

If you have ever dreamt of owning a World War II Enigma Machine, a three-rotor cipher machine will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The machine was originally made for the German military in ...