America Newspapers and Media are all part of the propaganda machine. If you watch the tv media closely, all they do is read from the teleprotor machine. It’s all controlled; even the voting machines. Hitler couldn’t do a better job with the technology they have today.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=why+we+fight&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#
“The Enigma machine was taken on by the German military, starting in 1926,” Alexander explained.’
Most don’t realize just how effective the Enigma Machine actually was. Nor do they know it was the primary system, then the primary back up, for the US Submarine Force up through the early 1980’s.
The US Navy version had twelve rotors, as opposed to the German’s original Enigma, which I think had only three.
I know, I rewired em every month for three years between 1978 and 1981.
Way way ahead of its time, which makes the ‘breaking’ of it even more impressive looking back.
Hogan’s Heroes was based in fact.
Said Ambrose: He did.
This same ww2 espionage secret has been “revealed” by the media every month for like the last 30 years.
As usual the press has it all wrong.
I became a history student, in 1976 after reading Anthony Brown’s “Body Guard of Lies”. It was possible to write about it then, because of the Freedom of Information Act.
For the next 9 years I studied WWII sig/intel. Cryptography is an interesting field. It’s impact on the War was huge.
Lots of good literature in the open for years.
Of course the press does not have a clue.
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I’ve found Enigma to be fascinating since Winterbotham’s book, “The Ultra Secret”. It’s a huge part of how we won the war — we were reading their codes and they weren’t reading ours.
I knew a guy who worked intelligence in the Pacific; he actually did some work on the IJN codes. I once asked him two questions that he did not answer:
1. How much were the Axis able to penetrate our codes?
2. Did we read British and Russian traffic, and vice versa?
There are some things we just aren’t supposed to know, I guess.