how did us decode germans during world war two?

Answer 1

I don't know, it's an ENIGMA?

Answer 2

The decoding of Enigma messages was first achieved by the Poles, but the Germans kept adding complexity to the machine, and they passed their knowledge to Britain when they realised it needed more resources. Alan Turing was one of the main designers of the electro-mechanical "bombes" at Bletchley Park, a huge number of which were manufactured by the British Tabulating Machine Company, and which were - just - able to keep pace with the German developments.

It is very important to understand that for much of the time, carelessness by the German operators enabled the message keys to be guessed quickly, and there were a few periods when stolen codebooks (stolen by the British, never by the Americans) were a significant help too. When neither of these were available, the bombes took much much longer to give a result.

Starting in June 1944, there was a completely different all-electronic machine called "Colossus", which helped to decode the top secret messages sent between Hitler and his generals by a completely different machine called the Lorentz. Colossus was designed by Tommy Flowers, and by the end of the war Bletchley Park had 10 of them. With the Lorentz system, there were never any operator errors or stolen codebooks to help, and Colossus had to do it all from scratch.

The Americans were not really involved. They knew all about the bombes, and were supplied with information from decoded Enigma messages, but it is absolutely certain that they never knew anything about Colossus and how it worked, only that the British could somehow decode some Lorentz messages.

Answer 3

The Germans used the Enigma machine to encrypt information. Decryption was made in 1932 by Polish cryptographers Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski from Cipher Bureau. In mid-1939 reconstruction and decryption methods were delivered from Poland to Britain and France. This helped the Allies immensely and is probably responsible for World War 2 being ended earlier than it would have.

Answer 4

The play, Breaking the Code, by Hugh Whitemore is about the life and death of Alan Turing, who was the central force in breaking the Enigma in Britain during World War II. Turing was played by Derek Jacobi, who also played Turing in a 1996 television adaptation of the play. The television adaptation is generally available (though currently only on VHS). Although it is a drama and thus takes artistic license, it is nonetheless a fundamentally accurate account. It contains a two-minute, stutteringly-nervous speech by Jacobi that comes very close to encapsulating the entire Enigma codebreaking effort.

Answer 5

As you have already read above, the U.S. had access to the German Enigma machine during the war. In fact, both Great Britain and the U.S. had captured several of the machines, and did it in such a way that the Germans never knew their war strategies were being read by the Allies. This was especially effective against German submarines in the Atlantic. Germany built nearly 1,100 subs, and 842 were sunk.

Answer 6

They,the US milatary, had to use decoding machine much like the Enigma,or it was the enigma they had to acquire, anyway translation never been easier since then.