TheCodeBreakers
the 52 major maneuvers between 1931 and 1937, the foreign forces were
reconstructed completely. But it also solved some cipher systems.
When in 1934, Hitler pointed Germany toward its eventual war of
revenge and conquest, he swelled the ranks of the armed forces and
intensified military activities. But though the cryptologic agencies
likewise grew in size, they did not necessarily grow in effectiveness. There
were too few specialists in this recondite field to fill the need created by
the proliferating military and party organizations. Some of the Army
cryptanalysts were siphoned off to serve in the Forschungsamt, others,
the Luftwaffe. Some of the intercept people moved over to Josef Goebbels'
Ministry of Propaganda, where their news-eavesdropping could help.
About 1937, the O.K.W. created its own communications and cryptologic
staff, thereby draining off more of the experts and further splintering the
effort in the field