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Bletchley Park or just lucky???
Posted by: William Engel ()
Date: May 15, 2001 12:46PM

<HTML>Hi All,

Yesterday I watched the 457th re-run of U-boat war part 1 on the Discovery Channel Europe. Though it remains very interesting, it is made from a very \"Brittish\" point of view (my opinion).

However I have a very burning question. In these series and everywhere else where somebody talkes about the codebreakers at Bletchley Park, it is stated that the BP was able to breake the German Enigma code. I got the feeling that they were just lucky (maybe I am wrong and I certainly do not mean to offend someone).
By lucky I mean that they were able to get their hands on the codebooks used by the German meteorological ships (the same codebooks as the u-boats) and the not sinking of the U-110 so they were able to get the documents and a working Enigma-machine.
With the German codebooks and Enigma from a U-boat, can one really talk about code-breaking at Bletchley Park or is allmost everybody able to break the codes with these ingredients.
Another favor the Germans did the guys at BP was not changing the code for the enigma\'s.

Don\'t we give the BP to much credit, or did I miss something somewhere down the line?? (This is certainly possible)

William</HTML>

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Subject Written By Posted
Bletchley Park or just lucky??? William Engel 05/15/2001 12:46PM
RE: Bletchley Park or just lucky??? Marc Haldimann 05/15/2001 01:47PM
RE: Bletchley Park or just lucky??? MPC 05/15/2001 07:06PM
RE: Bletchley Park or just lucky??? William Engel 05/16/2001 05:21AM
Enigma SuperKraut 05/16/2001 08:44AM
RE: Enigma William Engel 05/16/2001 09:27AM
Alternative explanation SuperKraut 05/16/2001 03:06PM
Alternative explanation SuperKraut 05/16/2001 03:07PM
RE: Alternative explanation William Engel 05/17/2001 05:46AM
Poor coordination SuperKraut 05/17/2001 08:07AM
Enigma and faith kurt 05/17/2001 04:21PM
Cipher penetrations SuperKraut 05/19/2001 07:28AM
Congratulations to you both... MPC 05/16/2001 03:49PM
RE: Bletchley Park or just lucky??? Rainer Bruns 05/16/2001 06:25PM
RE: Bletchley Park or just lucky??? Kris 05/16/2001 05:14PM


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