Hi Thomas,

No, the purpose of history is to report what actually happened, not someone’s opinion.

You don’t find out what actually happened by soliciting opinions, you do it by research and that’s what this forum and forums like it are for. The research is difficult, costly and takes years as you have to look into the conduct of the whole U-boat War in detail.

It only takes minutes to determine that breaking the Enigma codes was important but proving it was more important that the other important factors might require more than a lifetime and certainly can’t be accomplished by soliciting the opinions of strangers who haven’t done the research either.

The war was won by a combination of technologies and the blood sweat and tears of the men of the allied nations who took that technology to the battlefield as well as those who built it and serviced it.

There are no shortcuts. If it were easy your question would already be answered.

If you want to know what happened then by all means do the research. The search engine here should be helpful but it is only a start. If you want opinions you are wasting your time and ours. We all love a good debate but this forum isn’t the place for it.

Regards,

Ken Dunn