Divers discover abandoned Nazi WW2 enigma machine in Baltic Sea


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German divers who recently fished an Enigma encryption machine out of the Baltic Sea, used by the Nazis to send coded messages during WWII, handed their rare find over to a museum for restoration. Photo: AFP

German divers searching the Baltic Sea for discarded fishing nets have stumbled upon a rare Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazi military during WWII which they believe was thrown overboard from a scuttled submarine.

Thinking they had discovered a typewriter entangled in a net on the seabed of Gelting Bay, underwater archaeologist Florian Huber quickly realised the historical significance of the find.

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