If you fancy owning a fantastic piece of World War II history, you
might be intertested to know a version of the three rotor Enigma encoder
machines, which were used by the German military to encrypt messages
during World War II will be auctioned at Christie’s on September 29th.
During the war the Enigma Encoder was the most advanced device of its
kind and a forerunner of the first modern computer systems. The Enigma
Encoder encryption was subsequently cracked by a team at the legendary
Bletchley Park UK complex.
Simon Greenish, Director of the Bletchley Park Museum explains:
"The importance of the Enigma machine and the efforts of those at
Bletchley to decode it cannot be underestimated,” - ”Historians have,
until comparatively recently, recognized that Bletchley played a very
significant part in the war, shortening it by at least two years,” he
says. "But some are now beginning to say that perhaps it made the
difference in terms of winning (the war).”
In november last year on an Enigma Encoder Machine was auctioned for $106,000 around £67,000.
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