Coded letters sent from a British prisoner of war to his parents in Cornwall have been deciphered thanks to academics at Plymouth University. Sub Lt John Pryor was captured at Dunkirk in 1940 and sent to a German prisoner of war (PoW) camp. He was held for the next five years but as a reward for good behaviour he was [...]
The mysterious sealed box marked ‘transmitter’ found in a war shelter in a hairdresser’s garden was opened yesterday, revealing a jamming device that could today “wipe out most television in the area”. Michael Pope and Steve Appleyard, a volunteer at Muckleburgh Military Museum and former radio engineer, open up the as new WW2 radio transmitter that was found in an [...]
The new chief executive of a museum dedicated to the Second World War code-breakers has sparked anger after announcing plans to remove Winston Churchill memorabilia. Iain Standen said having a collection about the wartime prime minister was ‘not synonymous’ with Bletchley Park, in Buckinghamshire, and likened it to having ‘Charles and Diana mugs in someone’s house’. The trustees plan to [...]
This website was created for those who would like to learn about the German World War II Enigma code machine and use a virtual simulator of this machine to pass coded messages to other members and friends in our group. This is a website for Enigma users. It is not a site that deals with the technical aspects of the Enigma [...]
SOE codes and Referat Vauck In the 1930’s the British SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) collected information from European targets through two parallel systems. On the one hand regular SIS officers operated as passport control officers in the British consulates. This system gave them diplomatic protection but on the other hand foreign governments could easily identify them and keep them under [...]
The BBC Reports: The story of how the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park aided the allied code-cracking effort during World War II is becoming well known. Its claim to be a forerunner of modern-day computers is also well established, What is much less well known is the story of how Colossus’s story came to be told in the first place. [...]
The Telegraph reports: Agatha Christie almost unwittingly gave away the fact that Britain’s Second World War codebreakers at Bletchley Park had cracked the German codes in a 1941 novel. Christie was a close friend of Alfred Dilwyn “Dilly” Knox, a leading British codebreaker, so MI5 was very concerned when the character Major Bletchley appeared in N or M?. The novel [...]
Updates and Discussion. For the latest updates please visit this discussion forum thread: Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust. Introduction For the first time ever, we begin publishing original documents from the WW2 British Intelligence archives, relating to the inmate populations in various concentration camps as recorded in 1942 / 43. This article is intended as an introduction to [...]
Enigma rotor stack. Photo: Bob Lord (CC-BY-SA 3.0) Eighty years ago, young Polish mathematicians accomplished a feat many had thought impossible. Will a special museum tell their story? December 1922. Marian Rejewski, a 27-year-old cryptologist working for the Cipher Bureau of the Polish General Staff, could consider it his best month ever. Together with his colleagues, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk [...]
The last surviving code-breaker from the Second World War has received an MBE in the New Year Honours. Bletchley Park mastermind Raymond “Jerry” Roberts spent the war deciphering Hitler’s secret ciphers alongside pioneering mathematicians such as Alan Turing. The 92-year-old said he was “delighted” to receive honour, but hoped that one day his whole team will be recognised for their [...]
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