Hitler’s coding machine meets its nemesis


LONDON: The machine Hitler used to send coded messages to his generals met the supercomputer that revealed its secrets on June 3, watched on by veteran operatives whose painstaking work helped bring World War II to an end. 

Scientists at Bletchley Park in southern England, the WWII code breaking headquarters, fired up the valves, whirring wheels and spinning tors of the two machines to recreate how German military chiefs sent secret messages and how they were deciphered. 

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