Top Codebreaker Reveals Best Methods to CRACK ENIGMA

Learn from a top codebreaker as he reveals the best methods to crack Enigma in this World War 2 documentary. Dive into the history of Alan Turing and the secrets of wartime encryption.
Join me as I investigate how Americans cracked the Enigma code during World War II in this fascinating documentary on cryptography and the Naval Enigma machine.
In 1940, U-boats, Luftwaffe raids, and even high command orders were all sent through a machine the Germans believed was mathematically unbreakable. What they never knew was that the first cracks came from Polish mathematicians… the British turned it into ULTRA at Bletchley Park… and then American industrial power in Dayton, Ohio scaled codebreaking to a level the Germans couldn’t even imagine.

This episode dives deep into:

How Enigma became the “invisible shield” of the Third Reich

The Polish breakthrough that started it all

Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman, and the British Bombe

Why German Naval Enigma (4-rotor) nearly blinded the Allies

How the U.S. Navy and NCR built 100+ American Bombes in secret

The WAVES (women codebreakers) who ran the machines 24/7

How ULTRA turned the tide in the Battle of the Atlantic

Why Dönitz could never understand how the Allies “always knew”

And the final humiliation: Germany never realized Enigma was broken

If you love WWII logistics, intelligence, and the hidden war behind the war, this one is for you.

⏱️ Chapters
0:00 Germany’s Unbreakable Confidence
3:45 Polish Mathematicians vs. Enigma
8:20 Bletchley Park & Turing’s Bombe
14:55 The Naval Enigma Crisis (1942)
19:40 America Enters the Code War
25:10 Building 26, NCR & the WAVES
32:30 ULTRA in the Battle of the Atlantic
39:05 Deception, D-Day & Reading the Reich
46:20 Why the Germans Never Suspected
53:10 Postwar Secrecy & the ULTRA Reveal
1:00:10 Lessons from Enigma

👇 Tell me in the comments: which part of the Enigma story shocks you more — the Polish start, the British logic, or the American scale?