Hitler's secret cypher machine sold online

30 May 2016 - 09:18 By The Daily Telegraph

Historians have discovered a cipher machine used by Adolf Hitler to swap messages with his generals after it was advertised on eBay for £9.50 (about R220).Volunteers from the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park tracked down the Lorenz machine to a home in Essex, England. The device is bigger, more complicated and arguably more important than the Enigma machine, as it was used to exchange strategic messages with army commanders.The teleprinter would have been used to enter messages in German. The museum plans to recreate the whole messaging process on June 3...

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