Why Is Enigma So Important In WWII?

What role did Allied codebreakers have in the outcome of World War II? Though cryptography did not decide the outcome of World War II, it was very successful in shortening the war. In the Pacific theatre, the Americans broke several codes, including the PURPLE and JN25 codes. Though they were unable to anticipate the Pearl Harbor attack, codebreaking did benefit the Americans at the Battle of Midway and with the assassination of Yamamoto. In Europe, the Allies worked together against Germany to break the ENIGMA naval code, allowing the Allies to maintain superiority in the Battle of the Atlantic. Breaking the Japanese and German codes allowed the Allies to gain an advantage in both theatres, bringing about a resolution to the war. From World

When people are reminded of World War Two, they usually refer to all the stupendous and spectacular fights that took place. The thing that people do not know is that those stupendous and spectacular fights could not have been done without the courage's people who risked their lives to gather information to give their alliance an upper edge against the opponent. Some examples of spies are Mata Hari and Major Robin Stephens who risked their lives to gain information on their enemies. Spies did not only have their minds, but they also have gadgets that aided them to help gather information. Ultimately, all the outcomes that come from World War Two could not have been possible if people did not risk their lives to give their side and advantage against their opponent.

Operation Gunnerside is a great example of the abilities of the Allied operatives. A small group of British trained operatives were tasked to blow up a Nazi controlled heavy water production site. Heavy water was needed for the production of atomic weapons, so the Allies thought it would be a good idea to prevent the Nazis from acquiring it. The aforementioned operatives parachuted onto a frozen plateau above the heavy water facility on the night of February 27, 1943. They then proceeded to ski to the site, while having to go down a gorge, cross a frozen river stream, and climb around the facility to bypass mines and sentries. They then entered the facility through the cable ducts

Agents were trained in many fields, such as silent killing, sabotage, communication methods, demolition and map reading to carryout specialized missions in enemy territory. Each agent was assessed on which field was their strongest, sent to refine this skill, and then assigned to the missions best suited for them. Since there were so many missions sent out, the Germans had to focus much of their intelligence departments to the tracking down of these agents, giving Allies the advantage. Camp X and the secret agents who trained there were key assets to the winning of the war as they were sent to gather information, take over plans from the inside and to decode different messages. One example was the mission sent out to try and crack the enigma code of the Germans, the presumed reason for Dieppe raid. As well, these spies were used in many cases to save hundreds of Allied lives by notifying them about enemy plans before they were followed through with, as well as destroying weapons that might be being used to harm allied

The reason as to why the Enigma Machine was a major objective and required a specific group of people to solve was because it dictated how the Germans communicated and was an extremely complex machine that only the most intelligent people could potentially solve. The Enigma Machine was a code-generating machine used by the Nazis during World War Two. What appeared to be a typewriter in a suitcase, the Enigma Machine had essentially 4 main components to itself: the keyboard, the lamp board, the plug board, and the rotors. The keyboard was arranged in a German QWERTZ layout. The lamp board was also arranged in the same manner as the keyboard, however with the lamp board, there were no buttons to press down on.

Intelligence is often defined as accurate and timely information that assists our nation’s senior leadership in making knowledgeable decisions to prepare for and counter any developing threats against the security of the United States and its citizens. Intelligence is collected in response to requirements levied on the intelligence community by senior policy makers, the military, and law enforcement agencies. It plays a crucial role in our ability to detect and prevent threats against the United States.

This made it easier to take on the German High Command with a bold disinformation operation, such as Mincemeat. Because of the amount of outrage that was being expressed by the public after the Pearl Harbor attacks and the massive war casualties in Europe that governments of the warring countries were under heavy pressure. Another factor that contributed to the success of the operation was the careful execution of the plan by the British intelligence. The other important factor was that the Allies had been fighting the Germans for almost 3 years in Europe, Africa and elsewhere so they had begun to understand their enemy making it easier to defeat them. The amount of money spent on the war and soldiers lost was unbearable for people who were dragged into the war and the only chance of Ally nations surviving and winning was to take on the Germans aggressively and right away or Hitler might dominate the entire landscape of the European

The propaganda in World War II was used in defense of deference and favoritism for each country. Moreover, defensive side was shown and illustrated in both nationalities. Japan was showing the fight for their land and the United States was more concentrated in the deliberate attack on Pearl Harbor. Racist was legal in the United States at that time and was input in some signboard. Also, the increased comments in different races were shown in the propaganda between Nazi, Japanese’s and Americans. As a matter of fact, the Japanese were more for moral and pure; if they have to die or be killed by the enemy to obtain superiority will be proud. Also said, American was scared to die because they believed dying is definitively the loss of the spirit.

According to MI5, espionage refers to “a process which involves human sources (agents) or technical means to obtain information which is not normally publically available [and]…seeking to influence decision makers and opinion-formers to benefit the interests of a foreign power.” For many historians, espionage has long been “the missing dimension” of diplomatic, political, and military history. The declassification of documents and greater political transparency over recent decades however has opened up this previously ‘missing dimension’, and has highlighted its role in the conflicts of the twentieth century. As the extent to which agents were used to obtain classified information for the Allies and leak incorrect information to the Axis powers has become more apparent, increasing numbers of World War II historians, such as Professor F. H. Hinsley, have argued that espionage played a major part in the ultimate Allied victory in 1945. Despite this, there is still room for historiographical debate over the extent to which espionage had a significant impact on the course and outcome of World War II. This essay will use five case studies to explore the role of British and Soviet informants and agents in influencing the course and outcome of World War II, and the extent to which they altered the duration of the war, technological developments, battle outcomes and strategies, and assisted in the ultimate Allied victory. Ultimately, this essay will argue that Allied

When it comes to symbols throughout this movie, they are not hidden where you have to think about it. These motifs are easily present and up front an personal when the film was screened. The first motif was obvious and of course the main sought out object of the entire film and that was the Enigma machine. This machine was said to be the unbreakable message translator that would be all the leverage needed for Germany to have the victory at the end of the tunnel. The Enigma machine was easy to understand but extremely difficult to break, especially when you only had 24 hours to break that days worth of codes and then after all the work would change for a new day of code breaking. The second motif would be Turing’s machine named Christopher.

Turing was recruited as a cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park as he was described as an “exceptional talent” and a genius. His interest in cryptanalysis and the development of modern technology led him to create the machine that eventually broke the German Enigma Code. During his time at Bletchley Park, a co-worker of Turing, Captain Jerry Roberts, once said that “without him we would have lost the war”. Turing’s work was said to have shortened the war by up to 4 years.

An important point to the deception was Ultra, code name for intelligence obtained from intercepts of German radio traffic. This was made possible by the British early in the war having broken the code of the standard German radio enciphering machine, the Enigma. Through Ultra, the Allied high command knew what the Germans expected the Allies to do, and thus could plant information either to reinforce an existing false view or to feed information through German agents, most of it false but enough of it was true, thus sometimes involving sacrifice of Allied troops, agents or resistance forces in occupied countries, to maintain the credibility of the German agents. Six days before the targeted date of June 5, troops boarded ships, transports, and aircraft all along the southern and southwestern coasts of England. All was ready for one of history's most dramatic and momentous events. Dummy troops, false radio traffic, dummy landing craft in the bay of the Thames River, huge but unoccupied camps, dummy tanks-all contributed to the deception. Although the Allied commanders could not know it until their troops were ashore, their deception had been remarkably successful.

During the World War 2, the need for secrecy pushed the allies and the axis to develop encryption technology in order to pass their messages safely. There were numerous devices developed during that period. The most famous are included in the following passage.

Furthermore, security is important in obtaining surprise. Operation Mincemeat was successful in getting Hitler to split his forces. To set up the deception, the British needed the body of a man who appeared to have died by drowning. They found a man who had died of pneumonia in London. The British created a false identity for the body as a major in the army. The dead man’s wrist was handcuffed to a briefcase containing British coded documents pertaining to the upcoming invasion of Sardinia and Crete. The body was dumped overboard near the coast of Spain and Portugal and was washed up on shore. Churchill knew the Germans had the British code, and messages were sent to indicate the Allies plan was to attack Crete and Sardinia instead of Sicily. Hitler left soldiers in Sicily, but he split his forces and sent some to Crete and Sardinia. The Allied plan to attack Sicily did not go as well as hoped. The night the British and Americans spearheaded the attack the wind was blowing forty mph. The Americans landed fifty-five miles from their target and many drowned.

Morten Tyldum, the director of the film, explains that what caused him taking up on this project was the fact that “[Alan] did all these amazing things, and he’s in the shadows of history. It’s all because he has this shameful ending as a gay man, where he’s ridiculed and his work suffered” (Castillo, Monica). If it were not for Turing, laptops, ipads, and other forms of technology would not have existed without the concept of computer science, and it definitely would not have been as advanced as it is today. On a side note, Alan Turing had cracked the Enigma with the help of another mathematician, Gordan Welchman, but cracked Germany’s naval Enigma single handedly (Hodges, Andrew). In effect, this shortened the war by two years, which in turn saved millions of people’s