ENIGMA Machines

[David Dunlop]

Just finished watching another history blurb on TV about the British acquisition of a captured German Enigma machine during the war, which also included some sidebar comment about how the Americans eventually obtained one of their own.

It seems highly unlikely, given the shear volume of communication intercepts coming into British and American hands that just two machines would have had any chance at all in keeping up with the decoding needs for the Allied Intelligence Services. The British must have back engineered the Enigma machine and had others built to meet their needs. I now wonder what company the British might have asked to built Enigma machines, how many were ultimately built, and what ever happened to them all after the war ended.

David