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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: The Enigma of U-505
Description: The enigma machine was supposed to be Nazi Germany's unbreakable code machine. It's network carried the bulk of the German secret communications from the 1920's through the end of WWII in May of 1945. The machines carried by German Naval units, including U-Boats, were a
complex gizmo of gears and wheels and keys, that required the correct plug in board to produce the encrypted messages that controlled the communications of the German Wolfpacks and other military units. The German military believed that the Enigma code was utterly unbreakable.
During the course of the war, two Nazi U-boats were...