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Rare Nazi Enigma machine auctioned off for almost half a million euros

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:20:31 +0000

Machine's code was famously decoded by Alan Turing and his team, contributing to allied war effort; German Admiral Karl Doenitz ordered sophisticated M4 model in 1941

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Poland to rebuild historic palace where Nazi Enigma machine first cracked

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 21:46:34 +0000

Reconstruction of Saski Palace, blown up by Nazis when they leveled Warsaw, has been planned for years to symbolize city's rebirth

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New book deciphers forgotten intel war that kept the Nazis from the Holy Land

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 02:04:28 +0000

American-Israeli author Gershom Gorenberg's deeply researched tome serves as a corrective, bringing long-overlooked history of the North Africa campaign in World War II to the fore

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Divers stumble upon rare Nazi Enigma machine at bottom of Baltic Sea

Sat, 19 Dec 2020 00:51:34 +0000

Team uncovers coding cipher off Germany's coast while searching for abandoned fishing nets; device was probably thrown off warship at end of World War II

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‘Closing down forever’: Britain reveals Nazi Germany’s final decoded message

Sat, 09 May 2020 07:06:49 +0000

To mark 75 years since VE Day, UK releases content of last communications issued on a secret German network on May 7, 1945, which were intercepted by Bletchley Park codebreakers

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UK bank to secure credit cards using Nazi technology

Tue, 03 Jan 2017 08:27:17 +0000

Barclays will protect transactions with shifting code generator based on Enigma, which encrypted German messages in WWII

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German WWII coding machine found on eBay

Sun, 29 May 2016 16:19:15 +0000

Discovered in a shed and sold for £10, device was used by Hitler to send encrypted messages to his generals

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Nazi Enigma machine up for auction

Sat, 11 Jul 2015 07:42:28 +0000

Rare World War II encoding apparatus to go under the hammer in London, where it is expected to fetch over $100,000

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Flick on Nazi-thwarting genius Turing passes likeability test

Wed, 26 Nov 2014 22:27:44 +0000

Benedict Cumberbatch shines as the strange codebreaker who was persecuted post-war for indecency

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UK finally pardons WWII codebreaker Alan Turing

Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:58:45 +0000

The late brilliant mathematician who helped crack Nazi's Enigma machine was prosecuted for gay relationships

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Nazi ‘Enigma’ machine up for sale

Sun, 13 Oct 2013 12:06:35 +0000

The IDF is also a former user of the iconic encryption devices that Britain cracked during World War II

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