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A rare, fully-functioning Enigma machine used by the Germans during World War Two has sold for £213,000. ($300,000)
This Enigma I model was made in Berlin in 1935 for the military to transmit confidential information while German forces were expanded, in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles.
It has three rotors, each with 26 positions, to create 17,576 possible combinations for each letter.
The Enigma was considered to be 'unbreakable', but the British codebreakers at Bletchley Park led by Alan Turing were famously able to decipher it.
Pic: RRAuction/BNPS
A rare, fully-functioning Enigma machine used by the Germans during World War Two has sold for £213,000. ($300,000)
This Enigma I model was made in Berlin in 1935 for the military to transmit confidential information while German forces were expanded, in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles.
It has three rotors, each with 26 positions, to create 17,576 possible combinations for each letter.
The Enigma was considered to be 'unbreakable', but the British codebreakers at Bletchley Park led by Alan Turing were famously able to decipher it.
RRAuction/BNPS 16 Mar 2021 2400x2957 / 4.2MB