crouchingbadger
An Enigma Machine
I think if it had four rotors then it was owned by the Kriegsmarine, which was the U-boat people. The other machines only had three rotors, which probably explains why the code was so hard to break for the U-boats and so many boats were sunk in the Atlantic. Eventually some of these were captured along with code books and used to help break the codes back at Bletchley.
If you must, you can watch a travesty of a film called U-571 which takes the real Operation Primrose and claims Jon Bon Jovi did it all himself. Also, see U-559 photo. But Enigma with Kate Winslet is probably a better choice if you want a more factually accurate bit of Enigma porn (aside from that whole Official Secrets Act thing).
An Enigma Machine
I think if it had four rotors then it was owned by the Kriegsmarine, which was the U-boat people. The other machines only had three rotors, which probably explains why the code was so hard to break for the U-boats and so many boats were sunk in the Atlantic. Eventually some of these were captured along with code books and used to help break the codes back at Bletchley.
If you must, you can watch a travesty of a film called U-571 which takes the real Operation Primrose and claims Jon Bon Jovi did it all himself. Also, see U-559 photo. But Enigma with Kate Winslet is probably a better choice if you want a more factually accurate bit of Enigma porn (aside from that whole Official Secrets Act thing).