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the troops. The latter gave them an unexpected peek into the sex habits
of German soldiers. The Wehrmacht provided women from the Baltic
states and concentration camps as prostitutes for the occupation forces
in Norway, and the vessels were naturally awaited with great eagerness.
Their arrivals and departures formed the subject of excited
communication between units, and not infrequently a radioman in a port
from which a ship had just sailed would recommend one of the girls to a
fellow signalman in the port to which the ship was headed. The reasons
were sometimes quite specific, and the Swedes came to think that they
knew the girls almost as well by cryptologic means as the soldiers did by
carnal.
But errors, circular messages, and all the other aids would not have
helped the Swedes much if they were not as clever as they were. They
became so attuned to French procedure in regard to a multiplicity of
codes—at one time the French had eleven in simultaneous use—that
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