Posted on 12/15/2020 8:40:27 AM PST by PAUL09
Evidently my sarcasm was lost on you. Perhaps I should have included the /s.
Obviously a recent college grad. Totally missed the history of the Enigma and how the Poles and Brits, followed by the U.S., cracked the entire Enigma code and the machines. Also, why the reference to archaeologists finding such a machine three centuries from now, when the elements would have destroyed the machine? Equally important, the things are in museums today.
>>>Dominion is the new Enigma<<<
Actually, it’s the new Skynet.
To answer you, I’ll have to defer to what my father (WWII Airborne, combat vet, twice wounded) said many year ago.
“We hated the SS. Die hard Nazis. Never took them prisoner unless ordered to. The regular Wermacht guys didn’t bother us... but the SS, nope. Done.”
Clearly he - a man who was there and had seen them up close and fought them - made a distinction. So that was always my understanding as well. There were “Nazis”, and then there were “German Soldiers” to him. He also was part of a unit tracking down die-hards after the surrender. So again, I’ll defer to his distinction.
“Nazi” is the acronym for “National Socialist German Worker’s Party” - a political organization. Not all German soldiers, Luftwaffe, or Kreigsmarine personnel were Nazi party members. The SS on the other hand, for the most part, were.
As far as the Red Army - Not all Red Army soldiers were die-hard commies, either; if they were, then Stalin wouldn’t have needed to have NKVD commissars placed throughout the ranks, nor entire units of NKVD diehards to “police” the rank and file, rat out “defeatists”, and otherwise make life miserable for folks.
In other words - you have your fanatics (the minority), and then you have ordinary folk (the majority) caught up and forced into a situation they’d probably rather NOT be in, but are there nonetheless.
And it had 630,000,000,000 votes for Biden in Minnesota alone.
“More pages != better.”
Nobody tell Stephen King.
I didn’t realize that WW2 was 3 centuries ago. Boy am I old.
Thanks. I’ll add it to my reading list.
Thanks. I’ll add it to my reading list.
I wrote a software implementation of the Data Encryption Standard in the 1980’s for Control Data Corporation.
Enigma machines are rare in 2020, but specimens can be found in museums spread all over the world.
I think they only captured like five or six of them during the war (may be mistaken on the exact number, but I know it wasn’t a lot).
Like another poster said, this article may have been a translation... but yeah... :^) Needs some “minor editing”...
Stop being Racis!!!
Didn’t all German military forces swear an oath of allegiance directly to Hitler?
thats the characters name in batman game
it might be spelled nygma- not sure- ed Nygma- a playo n enigma- He’s a riddler like character but does weird puzzles to solve
I first learned of Enigma when I read Winterbotham’s book The Ultra Secret. The information had only recently been declassified.
It was a good read.
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