TheCodeBreakers
when their codes are broken. "You just get to a point where you are
reading a good part of the traffic when one morning you come in and it's
all changed," said Miss Friedrichs.
The Pers z solutions, typed up, went to Selchow. He submitted them
to the state secretary of the Foreign Office before Ribbentrop became
Foreign Minister, and afterwards to both the state secretary and the
Foreign Minister's office, at Ribbentrop's order. Those for the Fiihrer were
marked with a green "F." He did not always see them, since Ribbentrop
did not dare give him bad news. Those that he did see, he did not always
appreciate. Across the face of one long dispatch that gave considerable
information on agricultural conditions in Russia, which bore importantly
upon military possibilities, Hitler scrawled "Kann nicht bir stimme" ("This
cannot be"). Nazidom preferred its own lies and. propaganda to