TheCodeBreakers
Its elaborate equipment
instantaneously unscrambled the conversations, losing only a syllable or
two after a key change until the proper one was found. When this was in
operation, the German Postal Minister, Wilhelm Ohnesorge, notified Adolf
Hitler:
THE REICHSPOST MINISTER BERLIN W 66,
6 March 1942
LEIPZIGER STR. 15
U5342-1/1 Bfb Nr. 23 gRs SECRET REICH MATTER
Decipherment of the U.S.A.-England telephone connection
Mein Führer!
The Forschungsanstalt of the Deutsche Reichspost has
completed as the latest of its enterprises an intercept installation
for the telephone traffic between the U.S.A. and England, which
has been made unintelligible using all present knowledge of
communications technology. Thanks to the devoted work of its