TheCodeBreakers
was Ministerial Counselor Wilhelm Fen-ner, 48 when the war started. A
German born and raised in St. Petersburg, he had headed German
military cryptanalysis since 1922. He was a brilliant organizer who
oversaw the expansion of the group from a handful to more than 150,
but he handicapped himself by his egocentricity and by his
superciliousness with regard to the noncrypt-analytic aspects of
communications intelligence. His right-hand man was a Russian
emigrant, Professor Novo-paschenny, who under the Czar had been
attached to an astronomical observatory in Pulkovo, outside St.
Petersburg. He developed much of the technical aspects of the work, but
seems to have held only a relatively subordinate post
as a chief cryptanalyst in one of the national offices, ap parently
Referat V 9, which was probably Russia.
Head of Analytical Cryptanalysis (Gruppe TV) was Dr. Erich
Hiittenhain, who also directed that group's instructional activity (Referat
IVd)
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