During WWII, Alan Turing designed the Bombe at Bletchley Park to break Germany's Enigma cipher machine. This electromechanical device simulated thousands of Enigma settings, using known plaintext "cribs" to deduce daily keys. It decrypted vital Nazi communications, giving Allies a strategic edge and shortening the war by years. #wwii #historyfacts #epichistory | Epic History TV

817K views · 2.1K reactions | Germany's poor code skills cost them the First World War. In World War Two, they knew they needed something bigger and better. Enter the Enigma Machine, capable of an almost infinite number of combinations, and almost impossible to crack. But a team of Polish mathematicians were sure that everyone else was going about it all wrong, and set out to break the code for themselves. | War Stories | Facebook