Why was Bletchley Park able to break the German Enigma codes

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2. Why was Bletchley Park able to break the German Enigma codes?

Bletchley Park was able to break German Enigma codes because of the technology that was develop such as Bombes and the Colossus, also because of individuals such as Alan Turing and Dilly Knox, and also because of the German errors.

As Germany invaded Poland, Polish officials met up with the British and gave them all they knew about the Enigma. This not only opened the gates for the British as to what the Germans were using to scramble to letters, but also gave them a solid head start in order to go about decoding them. Later on, a German who was willing to sell information about the Enigma contacted the French intelligence which later passed this information on to the rest of the allies, including the British. This gave them a crucial head start which greatly helped Bletchley Park crack the Enigma codes.

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Bletchley Park used certain methods to ease the task of finding the right combination out of 150,000,000,000,000,000 possibilities. To try and find a pattern in the German Enigma codes, Jeffrey sheets were created. Those were a number of sheets were to be perforated with holes at specified locations, and stacked. Light shining through the holes in one or more locations could indicate possible keys.

The Bombe developed from a Polish concept and then significantly enhanced by the Mathematician, Alan Turing, was invented and became the main machine used by the British to break the German Enigma codes. At least 200 ...

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