TheCodeBreakers
In fact this was not a reason for going to war, but just another excuse
to do so. The Germans were using Dahlerus as a cat's-paw, for at the
very moment that Dahlerus entered Goring's home, Adolf Hitler was
signing his "Directive No. 1 for the Conduct of the War." At daybreak the
next morning German troops invaded Poland. And although the
Forschungsamt solution of the Polish message had no role in that attack
except to confirm the Nazis in their perfidy, it did demonstrate the
keenness and efficiency of one of Germany's major intelligence weapons
as she
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embarked upon what she fondly thought would be her blitzkrieg of
conquest.
The cryptanalytic service of the German Foreign Office was created
early in 1919, apparently at the suggestion of Kurt Selchow, a 32-year-
old former captain in the Army intercept service. Selchow became its
administrative chief and staffed it with cryptologic acquaintances from
the war
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