TheCodeBreakers
Rommel clamored in vain
for fuel.
At the same time, the 8th Army built up a powerful force in secrecy,
and concealed not only the date but the direction of its main thrust. Two
divisions arrived with 240 guns and 150 tanks. In the old days, the
Afrika Korps would have learned of it from Fellers' messages; this time
they never knew the two were there. The British had profited from their
capture of the Fernmeldeaufklarung files to institute an improved call-
sign procedure, tauten cryptographic discipline forward of divisional
headquarters, introduce radiotelephone codes, impose rigid wireless
silence or reserve formations, pad out real messages with dummy traffic,
and create an entire fake signals network in the southern sector. The
new Fernmeldeaufklarung staff had neither the talent nor the experience
to penetrate these disguises and sift the true from the false. The
Germans, who had been used to the constant flow of information from
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