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The [|enigma machine] was a German device that got it's roots in 1918. Several types were created, both before and during World War II. Each successive code was more difficult than the last. To put it simply, it's like taking a keyboard apart, and switching the wiring so that the keys make different letters. The enigma also further scrambled the message each time a key was pressed (videos). British intelligence received its first enigma machine in 1939 from the Polish military. The breaking of the Enigma code was important to the U-boat war, and vital to the rest of the war.

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